U.  S.  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR 

Jp  JAMES  J.  DAVIS,  Secretary 

BUREAU  OF  LABOR  STATISTICS 

ETHELBhRT  STEWART,  Commissioner 


BULLETIN  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES \  (  V[A 

BUREAU    OF    LABOR    STATISTICS/  *  fllU« 


MISCELLANEOUS    SERIES 


PERSONNEL  RESEARCH  AGENCIES 


A  GL'IDE 


ORGAN!  IN  EMPLOYMENT 

MANAGE  <IAL  RELATI 

TRAINING,  AND  WORKING  CONDITIONS 


By  J.  DAVID  THOMPSON 


NOVEMBER,  mi 


WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT  PRINTING  OfFICF 
1921 


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U.  S.  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR 

JAMES  T.  DAVIS,  Secretary 

BUREAU  OF  T  ABOR  STATISTICS 

ETHELBERT  STEWART,  Commissioner 


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BULLETIN  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES)  j  \T~ 

BUREAU    OF    LABOR    STATISTICS/   '  \\\\). 

MISCELLANEOUS    SERIES 


PERSONNEL  RESEARCH  AGENCIES 


A  GUIDE  TO 


ORGANIZED  RESEARCH  IN  EMPLOYMENT 
MANAGEMENT,  INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS 
TRAINING,  AND  WORKING  CONDITIONS 


By  J.  DAVID  THOMPSON 


NOVEMBER,  1921 


WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT  PRINTING  OFFICE 
1921 


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CONTENTS. 


Page. 

Inf  roduction 5,  G 

List    of    personnel     research    agencies    classified    according    to    principal 

aci  ivities      7-17 

•  ••nil  agencies  : 

(a)  In  the  Department  <>1'  Labor 19'-25 

(b)  In  other  t'xecutivt*  dop;irl  ni.'iUs,  ])oards,  and  conitnissions 25-4;5 

II.  Stair  and  municipal  agencies  : 

(r/)    Slates     alplialM'ticnlly 44-04 

(/>)    Cities.  jjli»lialM»t.ic:illy M-W 

III.  Nonoflicial  aironck's  : 

(a)  Associations,  societies,  foundations,  research  bureaus  and  insti- 

tutions.  alphabetically  by  name 67-105 

(b)  Universiiii's  and  tolle -<>.-,   lOS-l'-H) 

Index __._ 201-207 

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BULLETIN  OF  THE 
U.  S.  BUREAU  OF  LABOR  STATISTICS. 


NO.  299.  WASHINGTON.  NOVEMBER.  1921 

PERSONNEL  RESEARCH  AGENCIES. 

INTRODUCTION. 

Tliis  bulletin  has  been  prepared  in  response  to  the  request  contained 
in  the  following  resolution  adopted  by  a  preliminary  conference  on 
personnel  resean-h.  held  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  November  12,  1920, 
under  the  auspices  of  Engineering  Foundation  and  National  Research 
Council: 


l,  That  in  <>nl<>r  to  provide  the  information  al"uit  existing  agencies  in 
the  field  of  personnel  res,  'arch.  which  is  prerequisite  to  coordination  of  llioir 
work,  (lie  rnited  States  P.nrean  of  Lahor  Statistics  ho  requested  t<>  undertake 
.•'  survey  of  such  agencies  and  t<>  issuo  a  hulletin  describing  their  scope,  methods, 
and  present  activities. 

The  purpose  of  this  preliminary  conference,  which  was  attended 
by  40  representatives  of  organizations  of  labor,  manufacturers,  em- 
ployment managers,  engineers,  physicians,  educators,  economists. 
and  social  workers,  was  to  consider  the  practicability  of  bringing 
about  cooperation  among  the  many  bodies  conducting  research  relat- 
ing to  persons  employed  in  industry  and  commerce.  As  a  result  of 
its  deliberations  the  Personnel  Research  Federation  was  organized 
in  March,  1921. 

Personnel  research  has  been  construed  to  include  within  its  scope 
studies  and  investigations  of  all  kinds  concerned  with  any  of  the 
problems  of  (a)  employment  management  and  industrial  relations 
(such  as  selection  and  placement  of  employees,  job  analyses  and  speci- 
fications, rating  and  grading,  lines  of  promotion,  labor  turnover, 
absenteeism,  wage  and  other  incentives,  joint  control,  etc)  ;  (&)  vo- 
cational psychology,  including  the  development  and  standardization 
of  intelligence  and  trade  tests;  (e)  training  of  managers,  foremen, 
and  workmen,  either  in  schools  and  colleges,  in  the  factory,  or  under 
schemes  of  cooperation  between  educational.  institutions  and  industrial 
establishments:  («7)  working  conditions  in*  relation  to  output,  includ- 
ing hours  of  labor,  fatigue,  lighting,  ventilation,  food;  (e)  health 
hazards  and  occupational  diseases;  (/)  safety  codes  and  appliances; 
also  the  special  problems  connected  with  the  employment  of  women 
and  young  persons,  foreign  born  workers  and  colored  workers,  the 
handicapped  or  disabled,  and  the  mentally  deficient  or  unstable. 

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t>\  —  INTRODUCTION. 

The  agencies  whose  .activities  are  described  herein  are  arranged  in 
the  following  main  divisions : 

(1)  Official  agencies:  (a)  Federal,  (b)  State,  (c)  Municipal. 

(2)  Nonofficial  agencies:   (a)   Associations,  foundations,  research 
bureaus,  and  institutions;  (b)  Universities  and  colleges. 

In  each  group  the  entries  are  arranged  alphabetically. 

To  facilitate  reference  to  agencies  concerned  with  a  particular 
branch  of  personnel  research  a  classified  list  arranged  according  to 
the  following  scheme  is  prefixed: 

Employment  management. 

Intelligence  tests,  trade  tests,  etc. 

Psychopathic  and  mentally  deficient  employees. 

Placement.    Unemployment. 

Industrial  relations  (incentives,  adjustment,  joint  control,  etc.). 

Cost  of  living.    Budgets. 

Employment  of  women. 
-  Child  labor.    Vocational  guidance.    Juvenile  placement. 

Foreign-born  workers. 

Colored  workers. 

Handicapped  arid  disabled  workers. 

Training.    Vocational  education. 

Working  conditions.    Hours  of  labor.     Fatigue  and  efficiency. 

Industrial  hygiene  and  occupational  diseases. 

Industrial  morbidity  and  mortality  statistics. 

Safety.    Accident  prevention. 

Public  employment  (civil-service  examinations,  classification  and 
salaries,  efficiency  ratings,  retirement). 


AGENCIES  CLASSIFIED  ACCORDING  TO  PRINCIPAL 

ACTIVITIES. 

EMPLOYMENT  MANAGEMENT. 

Federal  agencies:  Paee- 

Federal  Board  for  Vocational  Education 32 

Federal  Reserve  Board.    Governors'  conference.     Committee  on  per- 
sonnel    35 

United  States.     Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 19 

Shipping  Board 41 

Societies  and  institutions: 

Americiin  Ai-ademy  of  Political  and  Social  -^               67 

American  Kiel-trie  Railway  Transportation  and  Trnllic  Association—  71 

Associalion   of   Collegiate   Si-!,                                       85 

Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce.     Retail  Trade  Board 86 

Bureau   of  Industrial    Research *7 

Bureau  of  Personnel  Administration 89 

Detroit    Board    of   Commerce 100 

Employment  AIaiK!;:<-rs'  Association,  Boston                                             . —  101 

Indus! rial   Relations  Association  of  America 105 

Metroindit.au  Lil'e  insurance  Co 118 

National  Association  of  Corporation  Training 118 

National  Committee  on  1'risons                    "i  !..;l>oY   .  123 

•X^acifte  ODWrt   Bureau  of  Kmpl«  yn;-                  .ich 142 

^Personnel    Research    Federation 143 

Retail   Research  Association 146 

Scott   Company   Laboratory l."io 

Universities  and  colleges : 

Boston  University.     College  of  Bu.-                !:ninistr;'ti<m 166 

Bryn  Mawr  College.     Carola  Woerisholl'er  Graduate   Department  of 

•iyl    Economy   and    Social    Research 166 

Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology.    Bureau  of  Personnel  Research—  169 

•urtmeut    of   Psychology 171 

University  of  Chicago.     School  of  Commerce  and   Administration 172 

Columbia  University.     Department  of  Extension  'IVachi-ig 175 

Dartmouth    CoiU-ge.       Amos    Tuck    School    of    Adnu'ntatr;Hion    and 

Finance , 177 

Harvard  University.     Graduate  School  of  Business  Adndnist1  ,-i«ion__  179 

Indiana  University.     Department  of  Psychology 182 

University  of  Michigan.    Department  of  Economics 186 

University  of  Minnesota.     School  of  Business 187 

New  School  for  Social  Research 187 

New  York  School  of  Social  Work 187 

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8  AGENCIES   CLASSIFIED  AS   TO  PRINCIPAL  ACTIVITIES. 

Universities  and  colleges — Concluded.  Page. 

New  York  University.     School  of  Commerce,  Accounts,  and  Finance—  188 

Northwestern  University.     School  of  Commerce 1S8 

University  of  Pennsylvania.     Wharton  School  of  Finance  and  Com- 
merce   191 

Department  of  Industrial  Research 191 

University  of  Pittsburgh.     School  of  Economics 102 

Prince  School  of  Education  for  Store  Service 192 

University  of  Southern  California.     College  of  Commerce  and   Busi- 
ness Administration 195 

Syracuse  University.     School  of  Business  Administration 1!>r> 

Washington  University.     School  of  Commerce  and  Finance 105 

University    of   Wisconsin.      Bureau    of    Commercial    and    Industrial 

Relations 195 

Department   of  Economics 190 

INTELLIGENCE  TESTS,  TRADE  TESTS,  ETC. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.     War  Department.     General  Staff 42 

State  agencies: 

Boston  Psychopathic  Hospital 51 

Minnesota  School  for  Feeble-minded 52 

New  Jersey.     Department  of  Institutions  and  Agencies 53 

Municipal  agencies: 

New  York  (City).     Board  of  Education.     Bureau  of  Reference,  Re- 
search, and  Statistics 65 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American  Electric  Railway  Transportation  and  Tariff  Association,.  71 

American  Psychological  Association 77 

American  Railway  Association 79 

Business  Standards  Association 91 

Judge  Baker  Foundation 114 

McLean  Hospital 110 

National  Association  of  Directors  of  Educational  Research 120 

National  Research  Council.    Division  of  Anthropology  and  Psychology.  131 

Scott  Company  Laboratory 150 

Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Engineering  Education.     Committee  on 

intelligence  tests 153 

Training  School  at  Vineland,  N.  J.    Department  of  Research 158 

Traveling  Engineers'  Association 159 

Universities  and  colleges: 

Brown  University.     School  of  Education 166 

Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology.     Department  of  Psychology 171 

University  of  Cincinnati.    College  of  Engineering  and  Commerce 173 

Clark  University.     Department  of  Psychology 174 

Cleveland  School  of  Education.    Department  of  Psychology 175 

Colorado  State  Teachers'  College.    Department  of  Psychology 175 

Columbia  University.     Department  of  Psychology.- 175 

Teachers'  College.     Department  of  Psychology 377 

Dartmouth  College.     Department  of  Psychology 177 

George  Peabody  College  for  Teachers.     Psychological  Laboratory 178 

Harvard   University.     Psychological   Laboratory 179 


INTELLIGENCE    TESTS,   TRADE   TESTS,   ETC.  9 

Universities  and  colleges— Concluded.  Page. 

University  of  Illinois.     Bureau  of  Educational  Research 182 

Indiana  University.    Department  of  Psychology •_ 1S2 

State  University  of  Iowa.    Department  of  Philosophy  and  Psychology-  183 

Johns  Hopkins  University.    Psychological  Laboratory 184 

Lelaiid  Stanford  University.     Department  of  Education 185 

University  of  Michigan.    Bureau  of  Mental  Tests  and  Measurements-  186 

University  of  Minnesota.     Department  of  Educational  Psychology 186 

Department  of  Psychology 187 

Ohio  State  University.     Department  of  Psychology 189 

Princeton   University.     Psychological  Laboratory 193 

Simmons  College.    Department  of  Psychology 193 

University   of  Texas.     Department  of  Psychology 195 

University  of  Washington.     Department  of  Psychology 195 

University  of  Wisconsin.     Department  of  Education 1!H» 

—     Psychological    Laboratory 197 

University  of  Wyoming.     Department  of  Philosophy  and  Psychology.  197 

Yale   University.     Department   of  Education 197 

Psychological   Laboratory 198 

PSYCHOPATHIC  AND  MENTALLY  DEFICIENT  EMPLOYEES. 

State  agencies: 

Connecticut  Commission  on  Child  Welfare.    Committee  on  defective*-  45 

Boston    Psychopathic   Hospital 50 

Massachusetts  School  for  the  Feeble-minded 52 

Minnesota  School  for  Feeble-minded 52 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American   Institute   of   Mining  and  Metallurgical   Engineers.     Com- 
mittee on  industrial  relations 76 

Engineering  Foundation 102 

Massachusetts  Society  for  Mental  Hygiene 117 

National  Committee  for  Mental  Hygiene 122 

National  Committee  on  Prisons  and  Prison  Labor 123 

State  Charities  Aid  Association  of  New  York.     Committee  on  mental 

hygiene 155 

Colleges: 

Smith  College.     Training  School  for  Social  Work 194 

PLACEMENT— UNEMPLOYMENT. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.     Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 1  19 

Employment    Service 24 

State  agencies: 

New  York  (State).    Department  of  Labor.    Bureau  of  Stat'st  cs  and 

Information 57 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American  Association  for  Labor  Legislation 69 

Coordinating  Committee  on  Employment  Activities  in  New  York  City_  98 

International  Association  of  Public  Employment  Services 112 

Ohio  Council  on  Women  and  Children  in  Industry 142 

Russell  Sage  Foundation . 148 


10  AGENCIES   CLASSIFIED   AS   TO   PRINCIPAL  ACTIVITIES. 

INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS. 

(Incentives,  adjustment,  joint  control,  etc.) 

Federal  agencies: 

United   States.     Bureau   of  Labor   Statistics 

Xavy   Department •!'> 

Railroad  Labor  Board 40 

Shipping  Board 41 

Associations  and  institutions: 

Amalgamated  Clothing  Workers  of  America (57 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science 67 

American  Federal  ion  of  Labor.     Railway  Employees'  Denartme:  75 

American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers      81 

Baltimore  Federation  of  Clothing  Manufacturers 8»> 

Bureau   of  Applied   Economics 

Bureau  of  Industrial  Research 87 

Bureau  of  Personnel  Administration s1.) 

Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United  Stales  of  America 1M 

Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce 1)4 

Industrial    Information    Service 104 

Intel-national    Association    of    Garment    Manufacturprs.     liunvu    of 

Factory  Practice  and  Industrial  Relations 1 111 

International  Ladies'  Garment  Workers'  Union...        TJH 

Labor  Bureau,   Inc 115 

Merchants'  Association  of  New  York 117 

National  Civic  Federation Hi! 

National  Electric  Light  Association 1L'6 

National  Industrial  Conference  Board li'S 

National  Retail  Dry  (Joods  Association i:5:t 

New  Jersey  State  Chamber  of  Commerce 140 

Philadelphia     Chamber     of     Commerce.     Industrial     relations     com- 
mittee   144 

Rochester  Chamber  of  Commerce.     Industrial  inanagemeju  council...  14<> 

Russell  Sage  Foundation.     Department  of  Industrial  Studies 1-ls 

United  Typothetse  of  America.     Department  of  Industrial  Rehii  161 

Westeni   Efficiency    Society 1(53 

COST   OF  LIVING— BUDGETS. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.     Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics • 19 

Federal  Reserve  Board.     Division  of  Analysis  and  Research 35 

State  agencies: 

Ohio.     Industrial    Commission.     Department    of    investigation    anil 

Statistics   5i> 

Associations  and  institutions: 

Bureau  of  Applied  Economics 87 

Bureau  of  Municipal  Research,  New  York 89 

Bureau  of  Municipal  Research,  Philadelphia 89 

Iowa  State  Federation  of  Labor 113 

Labor  Bureau,   Inc , iir> 

National  Industrial  Conference  Board 12S 

New  York  Association  for  Improving  the  Condition  of  the  Poor  141 
Rochester  Chamber  of  Commerce.     Industrial   management  council 

University  of  Chicago  Settlement--  17-S 


CHILD  LABOR  —  VOCATIONAL  GUIDANCE  -  JUVENILE  PLACEMENT.       11 
EMPLOYMENT   OF   WOMEN. 


Federal  agencies: 

United  States.    Bureau  of  Labor  tv 

Women's  Burnt  u  ----------------------- 

State  agencies: 

California.     Industrial  Welfare  Commission  __ 

Connecticut.     Department  of  Labor  and  Factory  lns|Kviion  4ft 

District  of  Columbia.    Minimum  Wage  Board  ------ 

Kansas.     Court  of  Industrial  Relations  -------------------  48' 

•seits.     Department  of  Labor  and  Indusm-^.     Division  of 

imlnslrial   safety  _______________________________  ----------------         4^ 

Division  of  minimum  wu.ue  -----------------------------        50 

Minnesota.     Bureau  of  Women  and  Children  ----------------  52 

Ne\v   York    (State).      Department    of   Laiu>r.      Bureau   of   Women    in 

Industry  __________________________  -------        & 

Oregon.     Industrial  Welfare  Commission  -------- 

Texas,     Ruivau  of  Lal.or  -----------         <>- 

Washington.     Department  of  Labor  and   Industries.     Industrial  Wel- 

fare Committee  _______________________ 

Wisconsin.     Industrial  Commission.     Women's  Deparl  ni"iit  ---------         03 

Municipal  agencies: 

Cleveland.     State-City  Five  i-'.iuploymeut  Servic-     Women's  dlviawai.        04 

Associations  and  institutions: 

Ameri.-aii  rouiM-il  on  l-:dti.':«H<H>_  .  71 

liurean  of   N                  I   Informntion  _________  90 

Consumers'    Le;;.                             '\i\'i  --------------  96 

Consum;                      <>i  Connecticut  _____  .  ---------  •>'» 

Consumers'   !                                                -yivania  97 
Ciinsun..                  M  of  N«»\v  Jersey  ------ 

Consul;  ,  'lie  of  NVw  York  ___________ 

National  Consumers'  League  ---------------  124 

Ohio  Council  on  'Women  and  Children  in  Industry  ----  142 

liussell  Sage  Foundation  _________________________ 

Woman's  Educational  and                   il  Union  _______________  163 

man's  Oeeupational  Bureau  -------------  1(':> 

Y.  W.  C.  A.    New  York  City,  central  branch--  165 

Colleges: 

Bryn  Mawr  College.     Carolu  Woerishoffer  Graduate  Department  of 

Socia.l  Economy  and  Social  Research  ____________________________  166 

Simmons  College.     School  of  Social  Work_  ___________________  ,  -----  193 

CHILD  LABOR—  VOCATIONAL  GUIDANCE—  JUVENILE  PLACEMENT. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.    Bureau  of  Education—,  ___________________________  26 

-    Children's  Bureau  ___________________________________________  '22 

Employment  Service.    Junior  division  ------------------------  24 

Public  Health  Service  ____________________________________  —  38 

State  agencies: 

California.    Bureau  of  Juvenile  Research  --------------------------  44 

Connecticut.     Commission  on  Child  Welfare  _________________  «  _____  45 

Pennsylvania.    Department  of  Labor  and  Industry  _________________  60 


12  ACF.NC1KS    CLASSIFIED  AS   TO   PRINCIPAL   ACTIVITIES. 

Municipal  agencies:  Page. 

Cincinnati  Public  Schools.    Vocation  Bureau <j4 

Des  Monies  (Iowa)  School  Board 65 

New  York   (City).     Board  of  Education.     Bureau  of  reference,  re- 
search,   and    statistics 65 

Oakland  (Calif.)  Public  Schools.    Bureau  of  research  and  guidance-  66 

Associations  and  institutions: 

Bureau   of  Educational    Experiments 87 

Consumers'  League  of  Connecticut 96 

Consumers'  League  of  Eastern  Pennsylvania 97 

National  Child  Labor  Committee 120 

National  Vocational  Guidance  Association 138 

Toledo  Consumers'  League 158 

Vocational  Guidance  and  Employment  Service  for  Juniors 162 

Universities: 

Boston  University ]  60 

Harvard  University.     Bureau  of  Vocational  Guidance 178 

FOREIGN-BORN  WORKERS. 

State  agencies: 

California.     Commission  on  Immigration  and  Housing 44 

Illinois.     Immigrants'    Commission 47 

Massachusetts.     Department   of   Education.     Division    of    university 

extension 48 

New   York    (State).     Department  of  Labor.     Bureau   of  Industries 
and  Immigration 56 

Associations  and  institutions: 

Associated  Industries  of  Massachusetts 83 

Carnegie  Corporation  of  New  York.     Americanization  study 92 

Inter-Racial   Council 113 

COLORED  WORKERS. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.    Department  of  Labor 24 

State  agencies: 

Chicago  Commission  on  Race  Relations 46 

State-City  Free  Employment  Service,  Cleveland 64 

Associations  and  institutions: 

Consumers'  League  of  Eastern  Pennsylvania 97 

Consumers'  League  of  New  York 98 

George  Peabody  College  for  Teachers 178 

HANDICAPPED  AND  DISABLED  WORKERS. 

Federal  agencies: 

Federal  Board  for  Vocational  Education 35 

State  agencies: 

Illinois.     Department  of  Public  Welfare 47 

Massachusetts.     Department    of    Industrial    Accidents.     Vocational 

training  division , 48 

Minnesota.     Department  of  Education.     Division  of  re-education 52 

Ohio.     Industrial    Commission.     Department    of    Investigation    and 

Statistics—  59 


TRAINING  -  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION.  13 


State  agencies—  Concluded. 

Pennsylvania.     Department  of  Labor  and  Industry.     Bureau  of  Re- 

habilitation ______________________________  61 

Wisconsin.     Industrial     Commission.     Employment     Offices    Depart- 

ment __________________________________________________________  63 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science  ----------  67 

Association  for  the  Prevention  and  Relief  of  Heart  Disease..  84 

Double  Duty  Finger  Guild  ----------------  100 

Institute  for  Crippled  and  Disabled  Men  ------ 

Red  Cross  Institute  for  the  Blind  -------  145 

TRAINING—  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION. 

Federal  agencies: 

Federal  Board  for  Vocational  Education- 

United  States.     Bureau  of  Education  ------------- 

Bureau  of  Foreign  and  Domestic  Commerce  --------------  29 

Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  ------------------  19 

Navy  Department.     Bureau  of  Navigation  -------  36 

War  Department.     General  Staff  ___________________________  41 

State  agencies: 

Masxarhusetis.     Department  of   K.iucation.      Vocational    Division  ----  48 

New   York    (State).     Department  of  Education.     Division  of  voca- 

tional and  extension  education  ---------------------------------  55 

Wisconsin.     Industrial  Commission.     Apprenticeship  Department—.  63 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American   Association   of   Engineers  ----------------------  60 

American  Chemical  Society.     Committee  on  cooperation  between  the 

universities   and    the   industries  _________________________________  70 

American  Council  on  Education  -----------------------------------  70 

American  Electric  Railway  Transportation  and  Tratlic  Association..  71 

American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers  --------  ,  ----------------  81 

Business  Training  Corporation  ____________________________________  91 

Carnegie  Foundation  for  the  Advancement  of  Teaching  ------------  93 

Council  of  Management  Education  _________  "  _______________________  99 

Engineering  Foundation  __________________________________________  102 

National  Association  of  Corporation  Training  ______________________  118 

National  Electric  Light  Association  __________________________  ^  _____  126 

National   Metal    Trades   Association  _______________________________  130 

National  Retail  Dry  Goods  Association  ____________________________  133 

National  Society  for  Vocational  Education  ___________  „  ____________  135 

Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Engineering  Education  ---------------  152 

Society  of  Industrial  Engineers  ___________________________________  154 

Technical  Association  of  the  Pulp  and  Paper  Industry  _____________  157 

United  Typothetee  of  America.     Committee  on  education  -----------  161 

Vocational  Education  Association  of  the  Middle  West  ______________  162 

Universities  and  colleges: 

Municipal  University  of  Akron  ____________________________________  165 

University  of  California.     Division  of  vocational  education  _________  168 

Carnegie    Institute    of   Technology.      Research    Bureau    for    Retail 

Training  _____________________________________________  _  --------  171 

University  of  Cincinnati.    College  of  Engineering  and  Commerce  ----  173 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  ____________________________  186 


14  AGENCIES  CLASSIFIED  AS   TO  PRINCIPAL  ACTIVITIES. 

Universities  and  colleges — Concluded.  Page. 

University  of  Michigan.    Department  of  Education ISO 

New  York  University.     Training  School  for  Teachers  of  lU'tztil  Selling.  188 

University  of  Pittsburgh.     School  of  Engineering 192 

Prince  School  of  Education  for  Store  Service 192 

WORKING    CONDITIONS— HOURS    OF    LABOR— FATIGUE    AND 

EFFICIENCY. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.     Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 19 

Post  Office  Department.    Welfare  Department 37 

Public  Health  Service 37 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American  Association  for  Labor  Legislation 68 

Association  of  Governmental  Labor  Officials  of  the  United  States  and 

Canada , 85 

Cabot  Fund 91 

Federated  American  Engineering  Societies 103 

National  Civic  Federation 121 

National  Industrial   Conference  Board 128 

Nutrition  Laboratory,  Boston 141 

Society  of  Industrial  Engineers 153 

Structural  Service  Bureau 155 

Taylor  Society 155 

Universities: 

Columbia  University.     College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons. .  Depart- 
ment of  Physiology 176 

Johns  Hopkins  University.     School  of  Hygiene  and  Public   Health. 

Department  of  Physiology 184 

Leland  Stanford  University.    Department  of  Physiology 185 

Purdue  University.    School  of  Mechanical  Engineering 193 

INDUSTRIAL  HYGIENE  AND   OCCUPATIONAL  DISEASES. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.    Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 19 

Bureau  of  Mines 29 

Public  Health  Service 37 

State  agencies: 

Massachusetts.     Department  of  Labor  and  Industries.     Division  of 

industrial   safety 49 

Xe\v  Jersey.     Department  of  Labor.     Bureau  of  Hygiene  and  Sani- 
tation  ,__.         53 

New  York  (State).     Commission  on  Ventilation . 54 

Department  of  Labor.     Bureau  of  Inspection.     Division  of  in- 
dustrial   hygiene 56 

Ohio.      Industrial    Commission.      Department   of   Investigation    and 

Statistics 59 

-    State  Departittent  of  Health.    Division  of  Industrial  Hygiene—        58 
Pennsylvania.      )  vepsirtnu^nt    of    Labor    and    Industry.      Division    of 

Hygiene  and  Engineering 61 

Municipal  agencies: 

New  York   (City).     Department  of  Health.     Division  of  Industrial 

Hygieae 65 


INDUSTRIAL  MORBIDITY  AND  MORTALITY  STATISTICS.  15 

Associations  and  institutions:  Page. 

American  Association  of  Industrial  Physicians  and  Surgeons 69 

American  Chemical  Society.     Committee  on  occupational  diseases  in 

the  chemical  trades 70 

American  Medical  Association 70 

American  Posture  League 77 

American  Public  Health  Association.    Section  on  industrial  hygiene—  7S 

Laboratory  section 79 

American  Society  of  Heating  and  Ventilating  Engineers.     Research 

Laboratory 80 

Cleveland  Hospital  Council.     Hospital  and  health  survey  of  (Neve- 
land 94 

College  of  Physicians.  Philadelphia.     Section  on  industrial  medicine 

and  public  health 05 

Conference  Board  of  Physicians  in  Industry 05 

Hougbton  Research  Staff 104 

Illuminating  Engineering  Soriety 104 

Joint    P.oanl  of  Saniiaiy  Control   in  the  Cloak,  Suit,  and  Skirt  and 

Dress  and  Waist   Industries 1!4 

Life  Extension  Institute    116 

Massachusetts  Ceneral   Hospital.     Industrial   (Mini--    110 

Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Co 118 

National  Tubercul">!                   Kttn 13G 

Nela    Uesejirch   Laboratory I.".4-) 

.I!  Manufacturing  Co.     Department  of  Industrial   Hygiene 151 

William  H.  Singer  Memorial  Research  Laboratory 152 

Tanner*'  ('uuiK-il  of  the  United  Slates  of  America P5 

Edward  L.  Trudeau  Foundation 15M 

Wor                 ilth  Bureau 164 

Universities: 

Bryn  Mawr  College.     Psychological  Lai.                  1G7 

University   of  California.     Department  of  Hygiene 1CS 

University  of  Cliicairo.     < >tn -..  S.  A.  Spram:.-  Memorial   !                    17:! 

Harvard   Medical   School.     Division  of  Indus!  i                              180 

State  Unhersity  of  Iowa.     School  of  *'•                 184 

Johns   Hopkins   University.     School   of   II  rid    Public  Henlth. 

Depart;;  -'tit   .»f  Physiology 184 

Ohio  Stale  University.    Department  oi   Puhhc  I Menm,  and  Snni'  180 

University  of  Pennsylvania.     School  of  Publi^  Hygiene 180 

Henry  Phipps  Instilute  for  the  Study,  Treatment,  and  Preven- 
tion of  Tuberculosis 191 

Yale  I'liiversiLy.     Laboratory  of  Applied-  1'hysiology 197 

-    School  of  Medicine.    Department  of  Poblie  Health 198 

INDUSTRIAL   MORBIDITY   AND    MORTALITY    STATISTICS. 

Federal  agencies: 

Pnited  States.     J?im«:tu  of  Labor  Ht:«tisrfc.< 19 

Public  I K-a lib  Service.    Statistical  Office 39 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American  Public  Health  Association.  Section  on  Vit.nl  Statistics. 
Committee  on  morbidity  reports  and  mortality  statistics  in  in- 
dustry __  78 


16  AGENCIES   CLASSIFIED  AS   TO   PRINCIPAL   ACTIVITIES. 

Associations  and  institutions— Concluded.  Page. 

International  Association  of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Com- 
missions.    Committee  on   Statistics  and  Compensation   Insurance 

Cost 

Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Co 

Pennsylvania  State  Chamber  of  Commerce.    Research  Bureau__  143 

Prudential  Insurance  Co.  of  America 144 

Workmen's  Circle 165 

SAFETY— ACCIDENT   PREVENTION. 

Federal  agencies: 

United  States.     Bureau  of  Chemistry 

Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 19 

Bureau  of  Mines 

Bureau  of  Standards k 30 

Interstate   Commerce   Commission.     Bureau   of   Locomotive   Inspec- 
tion  T 36 

State  agencies: 

California.    Industrial  Accident  Commission.    Department  of  Safety-  44 
Massachusetts.     Department  of  Labor  and  Industries.     Division  of 

industrial  safety— 49 

New  Jersey.     Department  of  Labor.     Bureau  of  electrical  and  me- 
chanical equipment , 53 

Bureau  of  explosives 53 

New   York    (State).     Department   of   Labor.     Bureau   of   industrial 

code 56 

Bureau  of  Statistics  and  Information 57 

Pennsylvania.      Department    of    Labor    and    Industry.      Industrial 

board 60 

Wisconsin.     Industrial  Commission.     Safety   and   sanitation  depart- 
ment   63 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American   Dyes  Institute 71 

American  Engineering  Standards  Committee 72 

American  Gas  Association 75 

American  Railway  Association 79 

American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers 81 

American  Society  of  Refrigerating  Engineers 82 

American  Society  of  Safety  Engineers 82 

Bureau  of  Safety 90 

Conference  Board  on  Safety  ami  Sanitation 95 

Electrical  Safety  Conference 100 

Grinding  Wheel   Manufacturers'   Association   of  the   United   States 

and  Canada 103 

Illuminating  Engineering  Society 104 

Institute  of  Makers  of  Explosives 110 

International  Association  of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Com- 
missions   111 

National  Committee  for  the  Prevention  of  Blindness 123 

National  Electric  Light  Association 124 

National  Fire  Protection  Association 126 

National  Founders'  Association 127 

National  Machine  Tool  Builders'  Association 130 


PUBLIC    EMPLOYMENT.  17 

Associations  and  institutions — Concluded.  Page. 

National   Safety   Council 133 

National  Workmen's  Compensation  Service  Bureau 138 

Portland  Cement  Association 144 

Safety  Institute  of  America 149 

Southern   Pine  Association 154 

Travelers'  Insurance  Company 158 

Underwriters'    Laboratories 159 

PUBLIC  EMPLOYMENT. 

(Civil-service  examinations,  classifications  and  salaries,  efficiency  rating,  retirement.) 

Federal  agencies: 

United   States.     Bureau  of  Efficiency 27 

Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 22 

Civil   Service  Commission 32 

Navy  Department.     Departmental  Wajje  Board  of  Review 36 

Women's    Bureau 23 

Associations  and  institutions: 

American  Association  of  Engineers 60 

Assembly  oi   Civil  Service  Commissions 83 

Bureau  of  Municipal   Research 89 

Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United  States  of  America 93 

Engineering    Council 103 

Institute  for  (lovernment   Research 110 

New  Jersey  Slate  Chamber  of  Commerce 140 

70723°— Bull.  209—21 2 


I.    FEDERAL  AGENCIES. 


(a)  IN  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR. 

BUREAU  OF  LABOR  STATISTICS. 

1712  (j  Street.  N  W.,  Washington,  D.  C.  Ethelbert  Stewart,  com- 
missioner. 

Organized  January  1,  1885,  under  act  of  Congress  approved  June 
27,  1884,  as  the  Bureau  of  Labor  in  the  Department  of  the  Interior, 
it  was  given  independent  status  as  the  Department  of  Labor  (without 
Cabinet  representation)  in  1888.  It  again  became  the  Bureau  of 
Labor  in  1903  under  the  Department  of  Commerce  and  Labor,  from 
which  it  was  transferred,  with  change  of  name  to  Bureau  of  Labor 
Statistics,  to  the  present  Department  of  Labor  upon  its  establishment 
in  191-2. 

The  function  of  the  bureau  as  stated  in  the  law  creating  it  is  to 
"  collect  information  upon  the  subject  of  labor,  its  relation  to  capital, 
the  hours  of  labor  and  the  earnings  of  laboring  men  and  women,  and 
the  means  of  promoting  their  material,  social,  intellectual  and  moral 
prosperity." 

Prior  to  July,  1912,  the  publications  of  the  bureau  consisted  of 
annual  and  special  reports  and  a  bimonthly  bulletin  containing  mis- 
cellaneous articles  on  labor  and  related  topics.  Since  that  time  bulle- 
tins have  been  issued  at  irregular  intervals,  each  number  devoted  to  a 
special  subject  in  one  of  the  following  groups,  under  which  they  are 
ified  in  recent  printed  lists,  viz:  Wholesale  prices,  Retail  prices 
and  cost  of  living.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor.  Employment  and  unem- 
ployment, Women  in  industry.  Workmen's  insurance  and  compensa- 
tion, Industrial  accidents  and  hygiene,  Conciliation  and  arbitration, 
Labor  laws  of  the  United  States,  Foreign  labor  laws,  Vocational 
education,  Labor  MS  aifected  by  the  Avar,  Miscellaneous  series.  They 
include  also  the  Proceedings  of  the  International  Association  of  Pub- 
lic Employment  Service  (see  p.  112),  International  Association  of  In- 
dustrial Accident  Boards  and  Commissions  (see  p.  Ill),  and  Associa- 
tion of  Governmental  Labor  Officials  (see  p.  85),  and  of  various 
employment  managers'  conferences  (Nos.  196,  202,  227,  247). 

The  studies  on  wages  and  hours  of  labor  cover  the  following  indus- 
tries: Anthracite  and  bituminous  coal  mining  (No.  279);  boot  and 
shoe  industry  (Nos.  134,  154,  178,  232,  260,  278)  ;  clothing  and  cigars 
(Nos.  135,  161,  187)  ;  cotton  goods  (Nos.  128,  150,  190,  239,  262,  288)  ; 
hosiery  and  underwear  (Nos.  134,  154,  177) ;  iron  and  steel  (Nos.  151, 
1GS,  218);  lumber,  millwork,  and  furniture  (Nos.  129,  153,  235); 
men's  clothing  (No.  187);  silk  (Nos.  128,  150,  190);  slaughtering 
and  meat  packing  (Nos.  252,  294) ;  building  and  repairing  of  steam 

19 


20  I.    FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

railroad  cars  (Nos.  137,  163)  ;  street  railway  employment  (No.  204) ; 
woolen  and  worsted  goods  (Nos.  128,  150,  190,  238,  261,  289)  ;  petro- 
leum industry  (No.  297,  in  press).  They  include  also  a  special  study 
of  the  dress  and  waist  industry  of  New  York  City  (No.  146)  and  the 
preliminary  report  of  an  industrial  survey  in  selected  industries, 
1919  (No.  265). 

Results  of  other  special  investigations  are  included  in  the  series  of 
bulletins  as  follows: 

(«)  Employment  and  Unctnplot/nn -nl: 

No.  172.  Unemployment  in  New  York  City.     1915.    24  p. 

No.  182.  Unemployment  among  women  in  department  and  other  retail  stores 
of  Boston.  1916.  72  p. 

No.  183.  Regularity  of  employment  in  the  women's  ready-to-wear  garment 
industries.  1916.  155  p. 

No.  195.  Unemployment  in  the  United  States.    1916.    115  p. 

No.  235.  Employment  system  of  the  Lake  Carriers'  Association,  by  1'.  P. 
Brissenden.  1918.  58  p. 

No.  241.  Public  employment  offices  in  the  United  States,  by  J.  G.  Herndon. 
1918.  100  p. 

(b)  Women  in  Industry: 

No.  116.  Hours,  earnings,  and  duration  of  employment  of  wage-earning  women 
in  selected  industries  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  by  M.  L.  Obenauer.  1913. 
68  p. 

No.  119.  Working  hours  of  women  in  the  pea  canneries  of  Wisconsin,  by  M.  L. 
Obenauer.  1913.  54  p. 

No.  122.  Employment  of  women  in  power  laundries  in  Milwaukee,  by  M.  L. 
Obenauer.  1913.  92  p. 

No.  160.  Hours,  earnings,  and  conditions  of  labor  of  women  in  Indiana  mer- 
cantile establishments  and  garment  factories,  by  M.  L.  Obenauer  and  F.  W. 
Valentine.  1914.  198  p. 

No.  176.  Effect  of  minimum1  wage  determinations  in  Oregon,  by  M.  L.  Obe- 
nauer and  B.  von  der  Nienburg.  1915.  108  p. 

No.  180.  The  boot  and  shoe  industry  in  Massachusetts  as  a  vocation  for 
women.  1915.  109  p. 

No.  193.  Dressmaking  as  a  trade  for  women  in  Massachusetts,  by  M.  Allinson. 
1916.  180  p. 

No.  215.  Industrial  experience  of  trade-school  girls  in  Massachusetts.  1917. 
275  p. 

No.  217.  Effect  of  workmen's  compensation  laws  in  diminishing  the  necessity 
of  industrial  employment  of  women  and  children,  by  M.  K.  Conyngtoii.  1917. 
170  p. 

No.  285.  Minimum  wage  laws  of  the  United  States,  by  L.  D.  Clark.  1921. 
345  p. 

(c)  Industrial  Accidents  and  Hygiene: 

No.  104.  Lead  poisoning  in  potteries,  tile  works,  and  porcelain  enameled  sani- 
tary ware  factories,  by  Alice  Hamilton.  1912.  95  p. 

No.  120.  Hygiene  of  the  painters'  trade,  by  Alice  Hamilton.    1913.    68  p. 

No.  127.  Dangers  to  workers  from  dusts  and  fumes  and  methods  of  protection, 
by  W.  C.  Hanson.  1913.  22  p. 

No.  141.  Lead  poisoning  in  the  smelting  and  refining  of  lead,  by  Alice  Hamil- 
ton. 1914.  97  p. 

No.  157.  Industrial  accident  statistics,  by  F.  L.  Hoffman.    1915.    210  p. 

No.  165.  Lead  poisoning  in  the  manufacture  of  storage  batteries,  by  Alice 
Hamilton.  1915.  38  p. 

No.  179.  Industrial  poisons  used  in  the  rubber  industry,  by  Alice  Hamilton. 
1915.  64  p. 

No.  209.  Hygiene  of  the  printing  trades,  by  Alice  Hamilton  and  C.  H.  Verrill. 
1917.  118  p. 

No.  219.  Industrial  poisons  used  or  produced  in  the  manufacture  of  explosives, 
by  Alice  Hamilton.  1917.  141  p. 

No.  231.  Mortality  from  respiratory  diseases  in  dusty  trades  (inorganic  dusts), 
by  F.  L.  Hoffman.  1918.  458  p. 

No.  234.  The  safety  movement  in  the  iron  and  steel  industtry,  1907  to  1917,  by 
L.  W.  Chaiiey  and  H.  S.  Hanna.  1918.  299  p. 


IN    THE   DEPARTMENT   OF   LABOR.  21 

No.  236.  Effects  of  the  air  hammer  on  the  hands  of  stonecutters.    1918.    147  p. 

No.  251.  Preventable  death  in  the  cotton  manufacturing  industry,  by  A  U. 
Perry.  1919.  534  p. 

No.  2n:j.  Women  in  the  lead  industries,  by  Alice  Hamilton.    1919.    38  p. 

No.  2fii;.  Accidents  and  accident  prevention  in  machine  building.  Revision  of 
No.  216,  by  L.  \V.  Chaney.  1920.  123  p. 

No.  'KM.  Anthrax  as  an  occupational  disease,  by  J.  B.  Andrews.    1920.    186  p. 

No.  280.  Industrial  poisoning  in  making  coal-tar  dyes  and  dye  intermediates, 
by  Alice  Hamilton.  1921.  87  p. 

No.  291.  Carbon  monoxide  poisoning,  by  Alice  Hamilton.    1921  (in  press). 

No.  293.  The  problem  of  dust  phthisis  in  the  granite  stone  industry,  by  F.  L. 
Hoffman.  1921  (in  press). 

No.  298.  Causes  and  prevention  of  accidents  in  the  iron  and  steel  industry,  by 
L.  W.  Chaney.    1921  (in  press). 
(<I)    Vocational  Education: 

No.  147.  Wages  and  regularity  of  employment  in  the  cloak,  suit,  and  skirt 
industry,  with  plans  for  apprenticeship  for  cutters  and  the  education  of  work- 
ers in  the  industry.  1914.  197  p. 

No.  1.~>9.  Short-unit  courses  for  wairc  earners  and  a  factory  school  experiment. 
191H.  93  p. 

No.  1(52.  Vocational  education  survey  of  Richmond,  Va.     1916.     333  P; 

No.  19!).   Vocational  education  survey  of  Minneapolis.     1917.     592  p. 


N-i.  iL'.'J.   Employers'  welfare  work,  by  K.  L.  Otey.    1913.    80  p. 

No.  208.   1'rom  sharing  in  the  United  States,  by  P>.  Emmet.     1917.     188  p. 

No.  2  .""><>.  Welfare,  work  for  employees  in  industrial  establishments  in  the 
United  States.  1919.  139  p. 

No.  2(J3.  Housing  by  employers  in  the  United  States,  by  L.  Maguusson.  1920. 
283  p. 

No.  2s2.  Mutual  relief  associations  among  Government  employees  in  Wash- 
ington. I>.  C.,  by  V.  B.  Turner.  1921.  38  p. 

No.2S3.  History  of  the  Shipbuilding  Labor  Adjustment  Board,  by  W.  B. 
Hotcbkiss  i>nd  II.  II.  Stager.  1921.  107  p. 

No.  299.  Personnel  research  agencies:  a  guide  to  organized  research  in  employ- 
ment i»:ma::onient.  industrial  relations,  training,  and  working  conditions,  by 
J.  1).  Thompson.  1921. 

The  following  special  publications  have  been  issued  without  serial 
numbering: 

Tentative  quantity  and  co--t  budget  necessary  to  maintain  a  family  of  five  in 
Washington,  D.  C.,  at  a  level  of  health  and  decency.  1919.  75  p. 

Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  coal-mining  industry  in  1919.     1919.     20  p. 

Minimum  quantity  budget  necessary  to  maintain  a  worker's  family  of  five  at 
a  level  of  health  and  decency.  1920.  20  p. 

Descriptions  of  occupations,  prepared  for  the  United  States  Employment 
Service,  1918-19:  Boots  and  shoes,  harness  and  saddlery.  ;md  tanning;  Cane- 
sugar  refining  and  flour  milling:  Coal  and  water  gas.  paint  and  varnish,  paper, 
printing  trades,  and  rubber  goods;  Electrical  manufacturing,  distribution,  and 
maintenance:  Logging  camps  and  sawmills;  Medicinal  manufacturing;  Metal 
working,  building  and  general  construction,  rnilroad  transportation,  and  ship- 
building: Mines  and  mining;  Office  employees;  Slaughtering  and  meat  packing; 
Street  railways:  Textiles  and  clothing;  Water  transportation. 

Since  July,  1015,  the  bureau  has  published  the  Monthly  Labor  Re- 
view, which  contains  special  articles  on  important  phases  of  the 
labor  question,  summary  reports  of  investigations  by  the  bureau, 
and  current  labor  news  and  information,  e.  g.,  prices  and  cost  of 
living,  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  minimum  wage,  labor  organizations 
and  agreements,  awards,  and  decisions,  employment  and  unemploy- 
ment, women  in  industry,  housing,  industrial  hygiene,  accidents, 
workmen's  compensation,  labor  laws  and  court  decisions,  strikes  and 
lockouts,  and  what  State  labor  bureaus  are  doing. 

Analyses  of  the  data  collected  in  the  cost-of  -living  survey  con- 
ducted by  the  bureau  during  the  fall  and  winter  of  1918-19  were 


22  I.   FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

published  in  articles  by  Royal  Meeker,  W.  F.  Ogburn,  and  others  in 


and  June,  1920.     Other  special  articles  on  the  following  personnel 
topics  appeared  in  the  numbers  indicated :  Disability  among  wage 

corn- 
con- 

Federal  personnel  policy,  by  W.  E.  Mosher  (July,  1920)  ; 'Separations 
from  the  Government  service,  by  M.  Conyngton  (December,  19*20)  ; 
Tonnage  output  per  pick  miner  per  day  in  bituminous  coal  fields, 
by  Ethelbert  Stewart  (February,  1921);  Industrial  absenteeism,  by 
R.  S.  Quinby  (October,  1921).  lucent  papers  dealing  with  industrial 
hygiene  and  occupational  diseases  include:  Opportunities  for  the 
study  of  industrial  medicine  in  the  United  States,  by  A.  Shu  ford. 
(May,  1920)  ;  Cost  of  occupational  diseases  under  workmen's  com- 
pensation acts  in  the  United  States,  by  C.  Hookstadt  (February, 
1921)  ;  Occupational  poisoning,  by  W.  H.  Rand  (February,  1921). 

CHILDREN'S  BUREAU. 

Twentieth  and  D  Streets  NW.,  Washington,  D.  C.  Miss  Grace 
Abbott,  chief. 

Established  by  act  of  Congress  approved  April  9,  1912.  the  Chil- 
dren's Bureau  is  directed  "to  investigate  and  report  *  *  *  upon 
all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  children  and  child  life,"  in- 
cluding "dangerous  occupations,  accidents  and  diseases  of  children, 
employment." 

In  its  series  of  Publications,  besides  a  compilation  of  child-labor 
laws  (No.  10)  and  reports  on  their  administration  dealing  with  the 
employment  certificate  system  of  Connecticut  (No.  12),  New  York 
(No.  17),  Maryland  (No.  41),  Wisconsin  (No.  85),  and  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  first  Federal  child-labor  law  (No.  78),  the  bureau  has 
published  the  following  special  studies : 

No.  74.  Industrial  instability  of  child  workers.  A  study  of  employment  cer- 
tificate records  in  Connecticut,  by  R.  M.  Woodbury.  1920.  80  p. 

No.  79.  Physical  standards  for  working  children.     Preliminary  report  of  the 
committee    appointed    by    the    Children's    Bureau    to    formulate    standards    of 
normal  development  and  sound  health  for  the  use  of  physiciajis  in  exnr; 
children  entering  employment  and  children  at  work.     1021.     24  p. 

A  summary  of  a  study  of  the  working  children  of  Boston  by  TTetan 
&umner  TVoodbury,  dealing  with  the  character,  conditions,  and 
effects  of  employment  of  children  under  16  years  of  age,  was  pub- 
lished in  the  Monthly  Labor  Review,  IT.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Sta- 
tistics, v.  12,  No.  1,  January,  1921,  p.  45-59. 

The  bureau  has  in  progress  studies  of  (1)  occupations  open  to 
minors,  their  educational  requirements  for  entrance,  and  the  oppor- 
tunities which  they  offer  for  advancement;  (2)  methods  of  juvenile 
guidance  and  placement.  Under  the  latter,  a  field  survey  of  methods 
of  vocational  guidance,  juvenile  placement,  and  supervision  of  work- 
ing children  in  15  or  20  typical  cities  is  to  be  undertaken  by  the  bu- 
reau in  the  fall  of  1921  in  cooperation  with  the  Junior  division  of  the 
United  States  Employment  Service.  The  trustees  of  the  Notional 


IN   THE   DEPARTMENT   OF   LABOR.  23 

Vocational  Guidance  Association  are  serving  as  an  advisory  com- 
mittee in  connection  with  this  project. 

Investigations  planned  for  the  near  future  cover:  (1)  The  rela- 
tion between  occupation  and  physical  development  and  health  of 
working  boys  and  girls  of  different  ages  in  selected  employments; 
(2)  the  accident  risk  of  different  occupations  with  special  reference 
to  age. 

WOMEN'S  BUREAU. 

Twentieth  and  D  Streets  NW.,  Washington,  D.  C.  Miss  Mary 
Anderson,  director. 

Organized  as  the  "  Woman  in  Industry  Service "  in  July,  1918, 
during  the  war  emergency,  to  serve  as  a  policy  forming  and  advisory 
body;  established  as  a  permanent-  bureau  by  act  of  Congress  ap- 
proved June  5,  i(.h!0,  ''to  formulate  standards  and  policies  which 
shall  promote  the  welfare  of  wage-earning  women,  improve  their 
working  conditions,  increase  their  efficiency,  and  advance  their  op- 
portunities for  profitable  employment,"  and  "to  investigate  and  re- 
port upon  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  women  in  in- 
dustry." 

The  publications  which  have  been  issued  by  the  bureau  consist  of 
annual  reports  of  the  director,  a  series  of  Bulletins  (Nos.  1  to  17, 
IDID-ID'JI),  and  charts  of  labor  legislation  affecting  woman  workers. 
The  bulletins  include,  besides  studies  of  labor  laws  (Nos.  W2,  5,  (5,  7, 
16)  and  standards  for  employment  of  women  in  industry  (No.  tt), 
the  following  reports  of  special  investigations: 

No.  1.  I'r"p'>sed  employment  of  women  during  the  war  in  the  industries  of 
ra  Kails.  I'.HX.  1C,  j>.  (From  Monthly  Labor  Ueview,  V.  S.  Bureau  of 
Labor  Statistics,  .him-,  11)11). 1 

No.  4.    Wages  of  eamly  linkers  in   i'iiil.idelphiu  in  1919.     1919.     46  p. 

No.  s.  Women  in  the  Government  service,  by  1'erilia  M.  Nienhurg.  1919. 
.",7  p.  (.\!  examinations  open  to  women,  appointments  and  salar1 

<"*!!!M;i  f"d    with    II!" 

1).  Home  work  in   JKridgt'p"'  '•     1919.     35   p.      (Deals   with   < 

and   garter  my  kin. 

•  1  conditions  of  work  for  women  in  industry  in  Virginia. 
H2  p.      (Survey  made  :.  ;iiest  of  Hie  governor. ) 

No.  11.   Won.  •  ar  conductors  and  ticket,  agents.     1920.     86  p.      (Sur- 

vey  in   I»eti-oii.    Kansas  City    (Mo.),  Host  on.  and  CliU'ago  ;   women's  hours  and 
conditions  of  work  compared  with  men's.) 

No.  12.  New  position  of  women  in  American  industry.  1920.  158  p.  (Sur- 
vey made  under  the  war-work  council  of  the  V.  VV.  C.  A.) 

No.  13.  Industrial  opportunities  and  training  for  women  and  girls.  1920. 
48  p.  (Covers  100  schools  in  20  States.) 

No.  14.  A  physiological  basis  for  the  shorter  working  day  for  women,  by 
Georg"  \V.  Webster.  U>21.  20  p. 

No.  l-">.  Some  effects  of  legislation  limiting  hours  of  work  for  women.  1921. 
26  p.  (A  comparison  of  the  effect  of  the  v  setts  48  hours  with  the  New 

y  60  hours.) 

17.  Women's  wages  in  Kansas.  1921.  104  p.  (Survey  of  hours,  wages, 
and  conditions  of  work  of  women  in  selected  industries  in  31  cities  made  in 
cooperation,  with  the  Kansas  Industrial  Welfare  Commission.) 

Preliminary  report  of  a  survey  of  wages,  hours,  and  conditions  of  work  of 
women  in  industry  in  Georgia.  11)21.  »;i5  p. 

Similar  local  investigations  "of  women  in  industry  undertaken 
by  the  bureau  are  in  progress  in  Ohio  (hours  and  working  condi- 
tions), Minnesota  (wages  and  hours),  Rhode  Island  (wages  and 
hours),  'Manchester,  N.  IT.  (dependency  of  500  families  on  woman 


24  I.    FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

workers,  stability  of  women  employees,  continuity  of  employment 
and  unemployment). 

A  survey  of  Negro  women  in  industry  was  made  by  this  bureau 
December,  1918,  to  June,  1919,  and  a  summary  of  the  data  secured 
is  included  in  the  second  report  of  the  Division  of  Negro  Economies 
(see  v.  infra). 

UNITED  STATES  EMPLOYMENT  SERVICE. 

Twentieth  and  C  Streets  NW.,  Washington,  D.  C.  Francis  I. 
Jones,  director  general. 

A  public  emplo37ment  service  was  organized  in  a  limited  way  in 
the  Bureau  of  Immigration  in  1907,  under  the  direction  of 'its  Division 
of  Information.  This  was  developed  from  1914  to  1917  under  the 
present  name  and  in  December,  1917,  was  separated  from  the  Bureau 
of  Immigration  and  made  a  service  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of 
Labor. 

A  plan  for  classifying  adults,  registered  with  the  Service,  by  the 
use  of  a  modification  of  the  army  trade  tests  was  tried  out  experi- 
mentally in  the  New  York  office,  1184  Broadway,  during  the  first 
three  months  of  1919;  but  reduction  of  the  appropriations  for  con- 
ducting the  Service  made  it  necessary  to  discontinue  the  work. 

JUNIOR  DIVISION. — Miss  Mary  Stewart,  director.  This  division 
deals  with  the  youth  of  the  county,  both  sexes,  between  legal  work- 
ing age  and  twenty-one.  Its  purpose  is  (a)  to  aid  the  schools  of  the 
country  in  assisting  their  charges  to  select  and  to  prepare  for  some 
definite  occupational  responsibility  in  which  they  may  be  efficient, 
productive,  and  constructive  workers ;  (b)  to  do  everything  possible  to 
secure  for  them  the  type  of  position  in  which  they  may  utilize  their 
abilities  to  the  best  possible  advantage;  (<?)  to  afford  the  type  of  em- 
ployment supervision  which  will  encourage  efficiency,  full  develop- 
ment of  abilities,  adaptability,  and  stability.  The  work  is  carried  on 
in  cooperation  with  local  educational  authorities,  the  national  office 
furnishing  leadership  and  advice  in  analyzing  local  demands  and  in 
perfecting  an  organization  best  fitted  to  local  needs.  Further  infor- 
mation is  given  in  "  Policies,  development  plans,  and  analysis  of 
positions,"  a  mimeographed  bulletin  issued  January,  1921. 

With  the  assistance  of  special  experts,  the  division  has  prepared 
and  issued  in  mimeographed  form,  April,  1921,  "  An  information 
course  in  vocational  guidance  and  placement  for  normal  schools  and 
colleges  "  (15  p.). 

WAR  SERVICES  (now  discontinued). 

DIVISION  OF  NEGRO  ECONOMICS. — This  division  was  formed  by  the 
Secretary  of  Labor  in  May,1918,  to  advise  the  department  on  matters 
relating  to  Negro  wage  earners  and  to  outline  and  promote  plans  for 
greater  cooperation  between  Negro  wage  earners,  white  employers, 
and  white  workers  in  agriculture  and  industry,  particularly  during 
the  war  emergency.  It  was  discontinued  as  a  separate  division  July, 
1921.  Two  publications  giving  the  results  of  its  investigations  have 
been  issued,  viz. : 

NVgro  migration  in  1916-17.     1919.     158  p. 

The  Negro  at  work  during  the  World  War  and  during  reconstruction; 
statistics,  problems,  and  policies  relating  to  the  greater  inclusion  of  Negro 
wage  earners  in  American  industry  and  agriculture.  1921.  144  p.  (Contains 
the  results  of  comparative  studies  of  white  and  colored  workers.) 


IN  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  25 

TRAINING  SERVICE. — During  1919  this  service  under  the  Office  of 
the  Secretary  issued  a  series  of  Training  Bulletins,  as  follows: 

No.  1.  How  to  start  11  training  department  in  a  factory.     24  p. 

No.  2.  A  successful  apprentice  toolmaker's  school.     8  p. 

No.  3.  British  methods  of  training  workers  in  war  industries.     68  p. 

No.  4.  Training  employees  for  better  production.     29  p. 

No.  5.  Training  la  hoi1  for  peace  time.     12  p. 

No.  G.  Labor  turnover  and  industrial  training.     7  p. 

No.  7.  Industrial  training  and  foreign  trade.     12  p. 

No.  8.   Some  advantages  of  industrial  training.     12  p. 

No.  9.  Seven  million  candidates  for  training.     15  p. 

No.  10.  A  business  man's  experience  with  industrial  training.     12  p. 

No.  11.  Efficient  training  in  a  large  plant.     13  p. 

No.  12.  How  training  departments  have  bettered  production — a  symposium. 
24  p. 

No.  13.  Training   in   representative  industries.    15  p. 

No.  14.  Training    in    industrial    plants.     30   p. 

No.  15.  Training  in  the  paper  box  industry.     75  p. 

No.  1(5.  Training  in  men's  suit  and  overcoat  industry.     83  p. 

No.  17.  Training  workers  in  the  women's  cloak  and  skirt  industry.     83  p. 

No.  18.  Industrial   training  in  the  overall  industry.     57  p. 

No.  19.  Training   for    shirt    makers.     59   p. 

No.  20.  Training  in  the  rubber  industry.     75  p. 

No.  21.  Training  in  the    leather  shoe   industry.     <>1    p. 

No.  -'2.  ('ours*-  of  instruction  in  piano,  making.     i>~>  p. 

No.  2I1  Outline  courses  for  instruction  in  lithography  and  photolithography. 
23  p. 

No.  24.  Industrial  training  for  foundry  workers.     68  p. 

No.  25.  A  course  of  instruction  for   workers  in  the  cotton   mills.     64  p 

No.  20.  The   foreman.     79  p. 

WORKING  CONDITIONS  SERVICE. — This  service  was  organized  in 
three  divisions:  (1)  Industrial  hygiene  and  medicine,  consisting  of 
personnel  detailed  from  the  U.  S.  Public  Health  Service,  (2)  Labor 
administration^  (3)  Safety  engineering.  The  scope,  functions,  and 
activities  of  this  service  are  described  in  its  report  for  the  fiscal  year 
ended  June  30,  1919  (35  p.),  and  a  pamphlet  entitled  "Treatment 
of  industrial  problems  by  constructive  methods"  (15  p.) ;  also  in  the 
House  hearings  on  the  sundry  civil  appropriation  bill  for  1920  (p. 
liVJT-1551).  It  was  discontinued  July  1?  1919,  through  failure  of 
appropriations.  The  results  of  two  special  studies  were  published 
as  follows: 

Investigation  into  dermatic  effect  and  infective  character  of  a  lubricating 
compound,  hy  F.  E.  Deeds.  1919.  8  p. 

Safeguarding  workers  in  the  tanning  industry,  by  R.  S.  Bonsib.    1919.    121  p. 

(b)  IN  OTHER  EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND 

COMMISSIONS. 

BUREAU  OF  CHEMISTRY. 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  Washington,  D.  C. 
D.  J.  Price,  engineer  in  charge  of  grain-dust  explosion  investi- 
gations. 

Since  1913  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry  has  been  making  studies  of 
the  causes  of  dust  explosions  in  grain  elevators,  feed,  cereal  and 
flour  mills,  starch  factories,  sugar  refineries,  and  other  industrial 
plants  which  handle  grain,  and  has  developed  and  tested  effective 
preventive  methods.  Field  investigations  of  mill,  elevator,  and 
thrashing-machine  explosions  have  been  made.  An  experimental 


26  J.  I'-;:"!;RAL 

attrition  mill  was  erected  at  Pennsylvania  State  College  in  1915  and 
experiments  on  gr  a  in-  dust  explosions  have  been  conducted  there 
under  a  cooperative  agreement  between  the  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture and  the  college.  Large  scale  tests  have  been  made  at  the  test- 
ing station  of  the  Bureau  of  Mines  at  Bruceton,  Pa.,  in  the  large  steel 
gallery  used  for  experiments  on  the  inflammability  of  coal  dusts. 

An  extensive  educational  campaign  for  the  prevention  of  grain- 
dust  explosions  was  inaugurated  in  the  fall  of  1917  by  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture  and  the  United  States  Food  Ad- 
ministration, The  United  States  Grain  Corporation  assumed  finan- 
cial control  of  this  campaign  in  July,  1919. 

A  preliminary  report  on  the  explosibility  of  grain  dusts,  by 
D.  J.  Price  and  H.  H.  Brown,  containing  the  results  of  the  first 
investigation  made  in  cooperation  with  the  United  States  Bureau  of 
Mines  and  the  millers'  committee  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y»,  was  published  by 
that  committee  in  1914  (now  out  of  print).  The  later  work  is  de- 
scribed in  the  following  publications: 

Price,  D.  J.,  and  McCormick,  E.  B.  Dust  explosions  and  fires  in  grain  sepa- 
rators in  the  Pacific  Northwest.  1916.  (U,  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  Bul- 
letin 379.) 

Dedrich,  B.  W.,  Fehr,.  R.  B.,  and  Price,  D.  J.    Grain-dust  explosions;  in 
gation  in  the  experimental  attrition  mill  at  Pennsylvania  State  Collect*.     r.)18. 
(U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  Bulletin  681.) 

Roethe,  H.  E.,  and  Bates,  E.  N.     The  installation  of  dust-collecting  uu 
thrashing  machines  for  the  prevention  of  explosions  and  fires  and  for  grain 
cleaning.     1920.     (Department  Circular  98.) 

United  States  Grain  Corporation.  Grain-dust  explosion  prevention.  New 
York,  1920. 

Proceedings  of  conference  of  men  engaged  in  grain-dust  explosion  and 

fire-prevention  campaign,  New  York,  April  22-24,  1920.     New  York,  1920. 

Circulars,  posters,  etc.,  for  use  in  educational  campaign. 

The  Bureau  of  Chemistry  has  also  made  investigations  of  cotton- 
gin  fires  and  has  found  the  main  cause  of  ignition  is  static  electricity. 
It  has  prepared  a  circular  describing  methods  for  preventing  such 
fires  (Department  Circular  28). 

BUREAU  OF  EDUCATION. 

Pension    Building,   Washington,   D.    C.     John    James   Tigert, 

commissioner. 

Special  studies  on  educational  subjects  by  its  own  staff  and  other 
specialists  are  published  by  this  bureau  in  its  series  of  bulletins. 
These  have  included  local  studies  of  industrial  education  in  the 
United  States,  e.  g.,  at  Columbus,  Ga.  (1913,  No.  25),  Worcester, 
Mass.  (1913,  No.  17:  A  trade  school  for  girls),  Cleveland,  Ohio 
(1913,  No.  39),  and  Wilmington,  Del.  (1918,  No.  25);  reports  on 
vocational  and  higher  technical  education  in  foreign  countries  (1913, 
No.  54;  1914,  No.  23;  1915,  No.  33;  1917,  No.  11) :  papers  on  voca- 
tional secondary  education  (1916,  No.  21)  and  vocational  guidance 
(1914,  No.  14;  1918,  Nos.  19,  24)  in  the  public-school  systems;  teach- 
ing English  to  the  foreign  born  (1919,  No.  80)  and  training  teachers 
for  Americanization  (1920,  No.  12)  ;  and  the  following  issues  dealing 
with  various  systems  of  training  and  with  education  for  particular 
occupations : 

1908,  No.  6.  The  apprenticeship  system  in  its  relation"  to  industrial  educa- 
tion, by  Carroll  D.  Wright. 


IN  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,   AND  COMMISSIONS.  27 

1913,  No.  50.  The  Fitchburg  plan  of  cooperative  industrial  educntion,  by  M.  R. 


1916,  No.  34.  Service  instruction  of  American  corporations,  by  L.  F.  Fuld, 

1916,  No.  37.  Cooperative  system  of  education,  by  C.  W.  Park. 

1909,  No.  10.  Education  for  HnViewv  m  railroad  service,  by  J.  S.  Eaton. 

1917,  No.  9.  Department-store  education,  by  Helen  R.  Norton. 

Some  of  the  effects  of  a  system  of  industrial  espionage,  discovered 
in  the  course  of  an  investigation  of  the  problem  of  adult  education  in 
Passaic,  N.  J.,  by  Mrs.  A.  B.  Fernandez,  are  described  in  her  report 
published  as  Bulletin  1920,  No.  4. 

During  1919-20,  six  numbers  of  a  series  of  Industrial  edu  cation 
circulars  were  issued  : 

No.  1.  Lessons  from  the  war  and  their  application  in  the  training  of  teachers. 

No.  2.  The  cooperative  school. 

No.  3.   Industrial   art  M   national   asset. 

No.  4.  The  Army  trade  tests. 

No.  5.  Progress  in  i.bo  preparation  of  industrial  teachers. 

No.  G.  Examples  of  #ood  teaching  in  iudu.-trial  education. 

Nos.  1  and  5  are  reports  of  conferences  of  men  from  institutions 
in  the  Mississippi  Valley  engaged  in  training  teachers  ol  the  m-mual 
arts  and  industrial  education,  December,  1918,  and  December,  1919; 
and  Nos.  4  and  6  are  reports  of  conferences  of  specialises  in  indus- 


trial education,  February.  liHi),  and  February,  n»-JO.  The  confer- 
ences were  called  by  the  United  States  Commissioner  of  Education. 
Bibliographies  of  industrial,  vocational,  and  trade  education  have 
been  issued  as  Bulletin  U)i;>,  No.  %2V2,  and.  Library  Leaflet  No.  7. 
Current  titles  arc  included  in  the  "Monthly  record  of  educational 
publications"  which  is  published  in  the  bulletin  sen 

BUREAU  OF  EFFICIENCY. 

Winder  Building,  Seventeenth  and  F  Streets,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Herbert  D.  Brown,  chief. 

Established  as  ->n  of  the  Civil  Service  Commission  by  au- 

thority of  the  legislatixe,  executive,  and  judicial  appropriation  act 
a]  (proved  March  4,  1913  (37  Stat.  750)  ;  made  an  independent  estab- 
lishment im<  -ont  name  by  the  urgent  deficiency  appropria- 

tion act  approved  February  28,  1916  (39  Stat,  15). 

The  duties  of  the  Bureau  of  Efficiency  are  to  establish  and  maintain 

•••;tem  of  effic  .tings  for  the  executive  departments  in  the 

District  of  Columbia  ;  to  investigate  the  needs  of  the  several  execu- 

departments  and  independent  establishments  with  respect  to 

personnel;   and  to  investigate  duplication  of  statistical   and  other 

work  and  methods  of  business  in  the  various  branches  of  the  Gov- 

ernment Service. 

The  first  personnel  work  undertaken  by  the  bureau  was  the  est  ab- 

sent of  a  system  of  efficiency  rating  in  the  Division  of  Dead  Let- 

ters of  the  Post  Office  Department.     This  system,  developed  and 

led  so  as  to  be  applicable  to  other  classes  of  work,  was  estab- 

lished experimentally  throughout  the  entire  Post  Office  Department 

in  December,  1914,  and  formally  promulgated  by  Executive  order  of 

June  L'3,  1915.     A  description  of  the  procedure  followed  in  rating 

.-.-iicy,  the  text  of  this  order  and  the  forms  used  are  printed  in. 

the  report  of  the  bureau  for  the  period  from  March  25,  1913,  to 

October  13,  1916.    During  this  period  informal  ratings  were  made  in 


28  I.   FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

the  office  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  United  States,  the  National  Bank 
Redemption  Agency,  the  State  Department,  Bureau  of  Supplies  and 
Accounts  of  the  Navy  Department.  In  1919  an  efficiency  record  sec- 
tion was  created  in  the  Division  of  Loans  and  Currency  of  the  Treas- 
ury Department,  and  two  systems  for  obtaining  ratings  were  sub- 
sequently developed  so  as  to  include  all  employees  of  that  office,  one 
applying  to  work  susceptible  of  precise  measurement  and  the  other 
to  work  not  measurable  in  quantitative  units.  In  1920  the  system  was 
also  put  into  operation  in  the  office  of  the  Register  of  the  Treasury. 
By  Executive  order  of  October  24,  1921,  the  bureau  was  directed  by 
the  President  to  prescribe  a  sj^stem  of  rating  the  efficiency  of  em- 
ployees throughout  the  classified  service. 

The  bureau  operated  a  training  school  for  correspondence  clerks 
in  the  Bureau  of  War  Risk  Insurance  during  1918  and  assisted  with 
the  establishment  of  a  school  for  training  revenue  collectors  in  the 
Bureau  of  Internal  Revenue.  In  June,  1919,  an  investigation  of  the 
desirability  of  establishing  a  training  school  for  Federal  employees 
in  the  District  of  Columbia  was  undertaken.  A  report  on  this  sub- 
ject and  recommendations  with  respect  to  the  conduct  of  such  a 
school  were  transmitted  to  the  Senate  March  3,  1920,  and  printed  as 
Senate  Document  No.  246  of  the  Sixty-sixth  Congress,  second  session. 

An  investigation  of  the  methods  and  procedure  of  the  Civil  Service 
Commission,  authorized  by  the  legislative,  executive,  and  judicial 
appropriation  act  of  March  3,  1917  (39  Stat.  1080),  has  recently 
been  completed  and  a  report  is  to  be  submitted  to  Congress  in  the 
near  future  discussing  all  phases  of  the  work  of  the  commission,  in- 
cluding methods  of  recruiting  candidates,  examinations,  ratings,  and 
certifications,  writh  recommendations  for  changes  in  policy  and  prac- 
tice which,  in  the  opinion  of  the  bureau,  would  enable  the  commis- 
sion to  perform  more  efficiently  its  primary  function,  that  of  an 
employment  department  for  the  Government  service. 

By  the  same  act  of  Congress  the  bureau  was  directed  to  make  an 
investigation  of  the  classification,  salaries,  and  efficiency  of  Federal 
employees  in  the  District  of  Columbia  and  a  comparison  of  the  rates 
of  pay  of  employees  of  the  Federal  Government  with  those  of  State 
and  municipal  governments  and  commercial  institutions  performing 
similar  services.  This  work,  suspended  during  the  war  and  again, 
during  the  life  of  the  Joint  Commission  on  Reclassification  of  Sal- 
aries,1 was  resumed  at  the  beginning  of  1920  at  the  direction  of  mem- 
bers of  the  House  Committee  on  Appropriations.  A  brief  classifi- 
cation of  Government  positions  has  been  made  and  ranges  of  pay 
have  been  suggested  for  each  class.2 

Prior  to  the  passage  of  the  retirement  act  of  1920  the  bureau  col- 
lected elaborate  statistics  on  the  personnel  of  the  Government  service 
and  from  these  made  actuarial  calculations  for  the  Senate  Committee 
on  Civil  Service  and  Retrenchment  as  to  the  cost  of  retiring  civil 
employees  of  the  Government  under  the  various  plans  proposed. 

irrhe  report  of  this  Joint  Commission,  created  Mar.  1,  1919,  by  section  9  of  the  li-^is- 
lative,  executive,  and  judicial  appropriation  act  for  1919-20,  submitting-  a  classification  of 
positions  on  the  basis  of  duties  and  qualifications,  and  schedules  of  compensation  for  the 
respective  classes  (107,  8*4  p.).  was  printed  as  House  Doc.  68t>,  06th  Coup.,  2d  scs. 

2  Incorporated  in  one  of  the  pending  reclassification  bills,  viz  :  H.  R.  2921,  67th  Con- 
press.  A  different  plan,  the  Lehlbach-Sterling  bill  (H.  R.  8928),  was,  however,  reported 
by  the  House  Committee  on  Reform  in  the  Civil  Service,  Nov.  3,  1921. 


IN  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  29 

BUREAU  OF  FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  COMMERCE. 

Department  of  Commerce,  Washington,  D.  C.     Philip  B.  Ken- 
nedy, director. 

This  bureau  has  cooperated  with  the  Federal  Board  for  Vocational 
Education  in  the  preparation  and  publication  of  texts  and  educa- 
tional guides  on  training  in  foreign  commerce  and  shipping,  which 
have  been  issued  in  its  Miscellaneous  Series,  as  follows : 

No.  81.  Selling  in  foreign  markets.    1919.    638  p. 
No.  85.  Paper  work  in  export  trade.     1920.     152  p. 
No.  97.  Training  for  foreign  trade.     1919.     195  p. 
No.  98.  Training  for  the  steamship  business.     1920.     49 

BUREAU  OF  MINES. 

Department  of  the  Interior,  Washington,  D.  C.  \S/  Foster  Bain, 
director. 

Established  by  act  of  Congress,  approved  May  16,  1910  (37  Stat. 
681),  this  bureau  is  authorized  to  conduct  investigations  designed  to 
improve  health  and  safety  in  the  mineral  industry,  and  to  promote 
efficient  development  and  utilization  of  mineral  resources.  Its  work 
is  organized  under  (a)  the  investigations  branch,  consisting  of  the 
technical  divisions  of  mining,  mineral  technology,  fuels,  metallurgy, 
petroleum  and  natural  gas,  and  the  division  of  mining  experiment 
stations;  (ft)  the  operations  branch,  including  the  divisions  of  office 
administration,  education  and  information,  mine-rescue  cars  and 
stations,  explosives,  and  the  Government  fuel  yard.  The  principal 
experiment  station  and  central  laboratories  are  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa.; 
other  experiment  stations  are  located  at  Bartlesville,  Okla.  (petro- 
leum) ;  Berkeley,  Calif.;  Columbus,  Ohio  (ceramics);  Fairbanks, 
Alaska ;  Golden,  Colo. ;  Minneapolis,  Minn. ;  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah ; 
Seattle,  Wash. ;  Tucson,  Ariz. ;  Urbana.  111. ;  and  appropriations  have 
been  made  for  two  new  mining  experiment  stations,  which  will  serve 
the  Birmingham  (Ala.)  and  St.  Louis  (Mo.)  districts.  The  bureau 
has  an  experimental  mine  at  Bruceton,  Pa.,  for  explosion  tests,  etc. 
Investigations  are  also  carried  on  under  cooperative  agreements  with 
various  State  universities,  mining  schools,  bureaus  and  commissions, 
and  other  agencies.  Each  annual  report  of  the  director  contains  a 
record  of  investigations  completed  or  in  progress. 

For  purposes  of  safety  work  the  country  is  divided  into  nine  safety 
districts,  each  with  a  district  engineer  in  charge;  and  the  bureau 
maintains  in  them  10  mine-rescue  cars  and  9  safety  stations,  which 
render  aid  at  mine  disasters,  and  at  which  about  10,000  miners  each 
year  are  trained  in  first-aid  and  mine-rescue  methods. 

The  publications  of  the  bureau  are  the  Bulletins  and  the  Technical 
Papers  (containing  the  results  of  investigations),  the  Miners'  Cir- 
culars (written  in  nontechnical  English  and  dealing  with  accident 
prevention,  rescue  and  first-aid  methods,  the  safeguarding  of  health, 
and  other  topics  that  directly  concern  the  workers  in  mines,  mills, 
and  metallurgical  plants),  the  annual  reports  of  the  director,  and 
miscellaneous  handbooks  on  special  subjects,  posters,  charts,  and 
schedules.  A  printed  list  of  them  may  be  obtained  on  application. 
A  mimeographed  series  of  brief  reports,  presenting  results  of  minor 
investigations  on  special  phases  of  major  investigations,  is  also  issued 
and  distributed  to  the  technical  press  and  to  Government  organiza- 
tions, companies,  or  individuals  interested. 


30  I.    FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

Among  the  studies  which  have  been  published  as  Bulletins  or  Tech- 
nical Papers  are  many  dealing  with  mine  hazards,  rescue  and  first- 
aid  training  for  miners,  health  and  safety  conditions  in  mines,  quar- 
ries, and  metallurgical  plants,  explosives  and  equipment  used  in 
mines  and  quarries,  and  related  subjects,  viz: 

Coal  dust,  explosion  tests,  etc.  (Bulletins  Nos.  20,  50,  56,  102,  141,  167). 

Mine  eases,  explosibility.  etc.  (Bullet ins  Nos.  42,  72,  195;  Technical  Papers 
Nos.  39,  43,  119,  121,  134,  150,  190)  ;  ignition  by  incandescent  lamps  (Bulletin 
No.  52 ;  Technical  Papers  Nos.  23,  28). 

Prevention  of  explosions  (Technical  Papers  Nos.  21,  56,  84). 

Safety  of  mine  electrical  equipment  ( Bulletin  Nos.  40,  68;  Technical  Papers 
Nos.  19,  44,  75,  101,  138)  ;  of  other  equipment  and  operations  (Bulletins  Nos. 
57,  74;  Technical  Papers  Nos.  103,  228,  237). 

Accident  prevention  in  metal  mines  (Technical  Papers  Nos.  30,  229)  ;  use  of 
stenches  as  warnings  (Technical  Paper  No.  244). 

Safety  in  stone  quarrying  (Technical  Paper  No.  111). 

Mine  rescue  and  first  aid,  gas  masks,  etc.  (Bulletin  No.  62;  Technical  Papers 
Nos.  82,  248)  ;  carbon  monoxide  detection  and  effects  (Technical  Papers  Nos. 
11,  62,  122)  ;  Report  of  the  committee  on  resuscitation  from  mine  gases  (Tech- 
nical Paper  No.  77).  See  also  Yale  University,  laboratory  of  applied  physiology 
(p.  197). 

Occupational  diseases:  Miner's  nystagmus  (Bulletin  No.  93);  pulmonary 
diseases  due  to  rock  dust  in  metal  mines  (Bulletin  No.  132;  Technical  Papers 
Nos.  105,  260)  ;  control  of  hookworm  infection  (Bulletin  No.  139). 

Blast  furnaces,  hazards,  and  accident  prevention  (Bulletins  Nos.  130,  140; 
Technical  Paper  No.  136)  ;  asphyxiation  by  blast-furnace  gas  (Technical  Paper 
No.  106). 

Steel  plants,  health  conservation  (Technical  Paper  No.  102)  ;  dust  hazards 
(Technical  Paper  No.  153)  ;  carbon  monoxide  poisoning  (Technical  Paper  No. 
156). 

Explosibility  of  acetylene  (Technical  Paper  No.  112)  ;  inflammability  of 
aluminum  dust  (Technical  Paper  No.  152)  ;  gasoline  hazards  (Technical  Papers 
Nos.  115,  127). 

Also  accident  statistics  for  coal  mines,  coke  ovens,  metal  mines,  quarries,  and 
metallurgical  works. 

As  the  result  of  13  years'  experience  in  testing  and  in  assisting 
manufacturers  to  develop  explosives  which  offer  the  minimum 
hazard,  when  properly  used,  in  gaseous  and  dusty  mines,  the  bureau 
has  prepared  standard  specifications  for  the  testing  and  use  of  per- 
missible explosives  for  use  in  mines  (schedule  17),  which  have 
recently  been  submitted  to  the  American  Engineering  Standards 
Committee  for  approval  as  "  tentative  American  standard." 

BUREAU  OF   STANDARDS. 

Washington,  D.  C.    S.  W.  Stratton,  director. 

.  In  1913,  under  authorization  of  Congress,  this  bureau  began  the 
study  of  the  hazards  of  electrical  practice,  and  from  the  start  has 
had  the  active  cooperation  of  all  the  interests  concerned.  This  has 
involved  not  only  the  study  of  existing  requirements  on  electrical 
construction  embodied  in  State  statutes,  commission  orders,  city  ordi- 
nances, company  specifications,  technical  association  reports,  and 
regulations  in  force  in  foreign  countries,  and  of  current  electrical 
practice,  but  also  a  series  of  investigations  covering  such  matters  as 
strength  of  splices  in  wires,  strength  of  poles,  weather  conditions  in 
different  parts  of  the  country,  shielding  effect  of  wires  upon  others 
mounted  on  the  same  line,  methods  of  making  ground  connections, 
resistances  of  various  types  of  ground  in  various  soils,  preservative 
treatment  of  wood  and  its  effect  upon  conductivity,  etc. 


IK  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  31 

Two  tentative  editions  of  the  National  Electrical  Safety  Code 
issued  in  1914  and  1916  as  Circular  No.  49  and  Circular  No.  54  were 
superseded  in  1921  by  the  third  edition  published  as  Handbook 
Series  No.  3.  This  has  been  submitted  to  the  American  Engineer- 
ing Standards  Committee  for  approval,  the  Bureau  of  Standards 
having  been  assigned  the  sponsorship  for  the  electrical  safety  code 
in  the  safety  program  of  that  committee.  '  (See  p.  73.)  It  consists 
of  parts  1  to  3,  dealing  respectively  with  installation  and  main- 
tenance of  (1)  electrical  supply  stations  and  substations,  (2)  over- 
head and  underground  supply  and  signal  lines,  (3)  utilization  equip- 
ment; part  4.  rules  for  the  operation  of  equipment  and  lines;  and  « 
supplementary  sections  which  include  rules  for  protective  grounding 
of  equipment  and  circuits.  The  discussion  of  the  rules  which  ac- 
companied them  in  the  second  edition  has  been  omitted  and  is  to 
appear  considerably  amplified  in  a  separate  publication.  Handbook 
Series  No.  4,  now  in  press.  Circular  No.  72  (1JH8),  entitled  "Scope 
and  application  of  the  national  electrical  safety  code,"  gives  further 
details  of  its  preparation,  describes  typical  accidents,  suggests  pro- 
cedure of  inspections,  and  summarizes  the  rules.  The  researches  on 
ground  conned  inns  for  electrical  systems  were  published  as  Tech- 
nologic Paper  No.  10S. 

In  1918  the  bureau  cooperated  with  the  safety  engineers  of  the 
War  vy  Departments  in  the  preparation  of  a  set  of  safety 

standards  to  be  applied  in  the  (Jo\  eminent  establishments.  Among 
these  standards  was  one  for  head  and  eye  protection,  which  was 
further  developed  through  study  and  experimental  work  at  the 
bureau  and  conferences  with  other  p;t  tio  had  had  experience  in 

eye  protection,  and  then  revis«MJ  in  li)20  by  an  advisory  committee 
organized  for  the  purpose.  It  has  now  been  published  under  the 
title  ib  National  safety  code  for  the  protection  of  the  heads  and  eyes 
of  industrial  worker-."  as  Handbook  Series  Xo.  2  (1921)  :  and  having 
been  developed  by  an  organ i/ation  and  procedure  substantially  in 
conformity  with  the  rules  of  the  American  P]ngineering  Standards 
Committee,  it  has  been  approved  as  4i  recommended  American  prac- 
tice "  by  that  committee,  which  had  previously  recognized  the  bureau 
as  sponsor  for  this  safety  code. 

The  bureau  is  also  sponsor  for  the  safety  code  for  logging  and 
sawmill  operations  and  has  organized  the  sectional  committee  repre- 
senting the  different  interests  concerned  and  prepared  the  first  draft. 
It  is  joint  sponsor  for  several  other  codes  in  preparation  under  the 
auspices  and  rules  of  procedure  of  the  American  Engineering  Stand- 
ards Committee  (see  p.  74),  viz,  the  gas  safety  code,  for  which  it 
has  made  a  number  of  investigations  relating  to  the  use  of  illumi- 
nating gas;  the  safety  code  on  aeronautics;  the  code  for  lightning 
protection,  on  which  subject  it  had  previously  published  investiga- 
tions in  Technologic  Paper  No.  56.  It  is  a  member  of  the  Electrical 
Safety  Conference-  (see  p.  100),  which  is  sponsor  for  the  safety  code 
on  electrical  power  control  and  engaged  in  the  development  of  other 
safety  standards  also. 

In  connection  with  the  elevator  code  recently  compiled  by  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers  (see  p.  81)  the  bureau 
made  a  survey  of  field  conditions  with  respect 'to  elevator  interlocks 
and  has  prepared  a  report  on  the  subject  which  it  expects  to  publish. 


32  I.    FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

It  is  cooperating  with  several  State  commissions  in  the  preparation 
of  safety  rules  and  has  representatives  on  the  sectional  committees 
developing  safety  codes  for  which  various  technical  associations  are 
sponsors. 

CIVIL  SERVICE  COMMISSION. 

1724  F  Street  NW.,  Washington,  D.  C.  John  T.  Doyle,  secre- 
tary ;  Herbert  A.  Filer,  chief  examiner. 

The  chief  examiner's  office  has  recently  given  special  attention  to 
modification  of  the  examination  for  departmental  clerk,  so  as  to  re- 
duce the  time  occupied  by  the  examiners  in  handling  and  rating  the 
papers  and  thus  the  cost  of  the  examination  without  interfering  with 
its  efficiency  as  a  test  of  fitness  for  the  clerical  service.  This  has  been 
accomplished  partly  by  mechanical  adjustment  (i.  e.,  size  of  papers, 
methods  of  handling,  etc.)  and  partly  by  changing  the  character  of 
some  of  the  tests,  e.  g.,  arithmetic.  In  regard  to  the  technical  ex- 
aminations, the  consultant  expert  retained  by  the  commission  for  this 
investigation  has  advised  against  the  use  of  trade  tests  under  present 
conditions. 

During  1918-19  the  Army  alpha  psychological  test  was  given  to  105 
of  the  commission's  employees  and  the  results  compared,  in  charts 
and  tables,  with  the  grades  attained  by  these  employees  in  the  com- 
mission's examinations  and  with  the  efficiency  ratings  of  these  per- 
sons as  reported  by  their  chiefs  of  division.  Facing  a  large  reduction 
of  its  staff  July  1,  1921,  clue  to  a  cut  of  $60,000  in  the  appropriation 
for  the  fiscal  year  1921-22,  the  commission  used  the  graphic  rating 
scale,  devised  by  the  Scott  Co.,  as  an  aid  to  eliminating  the  least 
efficient  of  its  employees  at  that  time. 

The  thirty-seventh  annual  report  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  June 
30,  1920,  includes  a  survey  of  employment  conditions  in  the  Federal 
civil  service  (p.  xx-xxvii)  and  an  account  of  the  special  method 
adopted  in  applying  the  merit  principle  to  the  selection  of  post- 
masters (p.  xxxiii-xxxv). 

FEDERAL  BOARD  FOR  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION. 

Washington,  D.  C.     Lewis  II.  Carris,  administrative  head. 

Created  by  the  act  of  Congress,  approved  February  23,  1917,  which 
provided  Federal  aid  for  vocational  schools  and  classes  and  teacher 
training  carried  on-  under  the  direct  supervision  or  control  of  State 
boards  of  vocational  education,  in  accordance  with  plans  approved  by 
the  Federal  board.  Its  primary  function  is  the  administration  of  this 
act.  In  addition,  it  is  charged  with  the  promotion  of  vocational 
rehabilitation  of  persons  disabled  in  industry  under  the  act  of  Con- 
gress, approved  June  2,  1920.  By  each  of  these  acts  the  board  is 
authorized  to  make  studies,  investigations,  and  reports. 

The  duty  of  directing  the  vocational  rehabilitation  and  return  to 
civil  employment  of  disabled  soldiers,  sailors,  and  marines,  imposed 
by  the  act  of  June  27,  1918,  was  transferred  to  the  Veterans*  Bureau 
by  the  act  of  Congress  creating  that  bureau,  approved  August  9, 
1921. 

The  first  studies  issued  by  the  board  in  its  bulletin  series  dealt 
with  emergency  war  training  courses  as  follows : 

Bulletin  No.  2.  Training  conscripted  men  for  service  as  radio  and  buzzer 
operators  (international  code)  in  the  United  States  Arm.v.  1917.  14  p. 


IX    OTHKFv   DKPAUTMKNTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  33 

Bulletin  No.  3.  Emergency  training  in  shipbuilding — evening  and  part-time 
classes  for  shipyard  workers  11)18.  72  j>.  (Contains  job  analyses  for  shipyard 
occupations  and  comparisons  w'i'h  kindred  trades.) 

Bulletin  No.  4.  Mechanical  and  technical  training  for  conscripted  men  (Air 
Division,  U.  S.  Signal  Corps.)  1918.  47  p. 

Bulletin  No.  7.  Emergency  war  training  for  motor-truck  drivers  and  chauf- 
feurs. 1918.  75  p. 

Bulletin  No.  8.  Emergency  war  training  for  machine-shop  occupations,  black- 
smithing,  sheet-metal  working,  and  pipe  fitting.  1918.  48  p. 

Bulletin  No.  9.  Emergency  war  training  for  electricians,  telephone  repairmen, 
linemen,  and  cable  splicers.  1918.  31  p. 

Bulletin  No.  10.  Emergency  war  training  for  gas-engine,  motor-car,  and 
motor-cycle  repairmen.  1918.  79  p. 

Bulletin  No.  11.  Emergency  war  training  for  oxyacetylene  welders.  1918. 
80  i>. 

Bulletin  No.  16.  Emergency  war  training  for  radio  mechanics  and  radio 
operators.  1918.  75  p. 

During  the  war  a  number  of  Government  agencies  combined  to 
carry  on  the  training  of  employment  managers  under  the  immediate 
direction  of  the  War  Industries  Board.  When  the  latter  was  discon- 
tinued December  31,  1918,  provision  was  made  by  the  President,  from 
the  appropriation  for  national  security  and  defense,  for  the  continua- 
tion of  this  work  under  the  auspices  of  the  Federal  Board  for  Voca- 
tional Education  until  July  1,  1919.  Subsequently,  nine  bulletins 
dealing  with  certain  phases  of  employment  management  were  pub- 
lished, forming  the  following  series : 

Employment  Management  Series. 

No.  1.  Employment  management  :  iis  rise  and  scope.  The  organization  of  an 
employment  department.  By  B'-yd  Kishcr  and  Edward  D.  Jones.  1920.  34  p. 
(Bulletin  No.  50.) 

No.  i'.  The  selection  and  placement  of  employees.  By  Philip  J.  Reilly.  1919. 
84  p.  (Bulletin  No.  49.) 

No.  3.  Job  specifications.  By  Franklyn  Meine.  1919.  64  p.  (Bulletin  No. 
45.) 

No.  4.  Employment  management  and  industrial  training.  By  Roy  W.  Kelly. 
1919.  107  p.  (Bulletin  No.  48.) 

No.  5.  The  wage-setting  process.  By  Alfred  B.  Rich.  1919.  32  p.  (Bulletin 
No.  44.) 

No.  G.  The  turnover  of  labor.  By  Boris  Emmet.  1919.  60  p.  (Bulletin 
No.  46.) 

No.  7.  Industrial  accidents  and  their  prevention.  By  R.  R.  Ray.  1919.  66 
p.  (Bulletin  No.  47.) 

No.  8.  The  labor  audit:  a  method  of  industrial  investigation.  By  Ordway 
Tead.  1920.  48  p.  (Bulletin  No.  43.)  * 

No.  9.  Bibliography  of  employment  management.  By  Edward  D.  Jones.  1920. 
119  p.  (Bulletin  No.  51.) 

The  results  of  the  research  work  undertaken  to  promote  the  effi- 
ciency of  trade  and  industrial  education  are  made  available  to  the 
States  through  regional  conferences  held  annually  with  representa- 
tives of  State  boards  and  through  the  publication  of  bulletins.  The 
special  types  of  service  to  State  boards,  as  described  in  the  fourth 
annual  report,  1920  (p.  28-40),  includes  studies  of  training  of  trade 
and  industrial  teachers,  and  development  of  methods  of  educational 
trade  analysis,  effective  programs  for  foremen's  conferences,  and 
methods  of  conducting  local  surveys.  Short  training  courses  on 
these  subjects  have  been  given  at  the  regional  conferences.  The  bul- 
letins containing  results  of  studies  in  this  field  constitute  the  follow- 
ing subseries. 

7072.')°— Bull.  299—21 3 


34  1.    FEDERAL   AGENCY 

Trade  and  Industrial  »sVnY\. 

No.  1.  Trade  and  industrial  education— organization  and  administration. 
1918.  125  p.  (Bulletin  No.  17.) 

No.  2.  Evening  industrial  schools.     1918.     55  p.     (Bulletin  No.  18.) 

No.  3.  Part-time  trade  and  industrial  education.  1018,  52  p.  (Bulletin 
No.  19.) 

No.  4.  Buildings  and  equipment  for  schools  and  class-  <  in  fade  and  indus- 
trial subjects.  -191S.  77  j>.  (Bulletin  No.  20.) 

No.  5.  Evening  and  part-time  schools  in  the  textile  industry  in  the  Southern 
States.  1919.  106  p.  (Bulletin  No.  30.)  Contains  job  analyses  of  textile 
occupations. 

No.  6.  Training  courses  in  safety  and  hygiene  in  the  building  trades.  1919. 
128  p.  (Bulletin  No.  31.) 

No.  7.  Foreman  training  courses,  Parts  I  and  II.  1919.  2  v.  (Bulletin  No. 
36.)  Based  on  an  experiment  in  foreman  training  conducted  in  cooperation 
with  an  industrial  plant. 

No.  8.  General  mining.  1919.  169  p.  (Bulletin  No.  38.)  Includes  analyses 
of  mining  occupations,  routes  for  promotions,  mining  schools,  outlines  of  courses, 
etc. 

No.  9.  Coal-mine  gases.    1919.    36  p.     (Bulletin  No.  39.) 

No.  10.  Coal-mine  timbering.     1919.     103  p.     (Bulletin  No.  40.) 

No.  11.  Coal-mine  ventilation.    1919.    63  p.     (Bulletin  No.  41.) 

No.  12.  Safety  lamps,  including  flames,  safety  lamps,  and  approved  electric 
lamps.  1919.  72  p.  (Bulletin  No.  42.) 

No.  13.  Theory  and  practice.  Outlines  of  instruction  in  related  subjects  for 
the  machinist's^  trade,  including  general  trade  subjects  for  certain  other  occu- 
pations. 1919.  127  p.  (Bulletin  No.  52.)  Includes  analysis  of  machinist's  trade 
(p.  15-47.) 

No.  14.  Compulsory  part-time  school  attendance  laws.  1920.  95  p.  (Bulle- 
tin No.  55.) 

No.  15.  Trade  and  industrial  education  for  girls  and  women.  1920.  106  p. 
(Bulletin  No.  58.) 

No.  16.  Foremanship  courses  vs.  instructor-training  courses.  1921.  15  p. 
(Bulletin  No.  60.) 

No.  17.  Improving  foremanship :  trade  extension  courses  for  foremen.  1921. 
42  p.  (Bulletin  No.  61.) 

No.  18.  Instructor  training,  instructor-training  courses  for  trade  teachers  and 
for  foremen  having  an  instructional  responsibility.  1921.  43  p.  (Bulletin  No. 
62.) 

No.  19.  Bibliography  on  vocational  guidance:  A  selected  list  of  vocational 
guidance  references  for  teachers.  1921.  35  p.  (Bulletin  No.  66.) 

No.  20.  A  survey  and  analysis  of  the  pottery  industry.  1921.  88  p.  (Bulletin 
No.  67.) 

No.  21.  An  analysis  of  the  railway  boilermaker's  trade.  1921.  24  p.  ( Bulle- 
tin No.  69.) 

In  the  field  of  training  for  mercantile  occupations  some  of  the 
studies  made  have  been  issued  in  the  following  subseries  of  bulletins: 

Commercial  Education  Series. 
,* 

No.  1.  Retail  selling.  By  Mrs.  L.  W.  Prince.  Rev.  ed.  1919.  103  p.  (Bulletin 
No.  22.) 

No  2.  Vocational  education  for  foreign  trade  and  shipping.  1918.  85  p. 
(Bulletin  No.  24.) 

No.  3.  Commercial  education — organization  and  administration.  1919.  67  p. 
(Bulletin  No.  34.) 

No.  4.  Survey  of  junior  commercial  occupations.  1920.  77  p.  (Bulletin  No. 
54.)  Contains  job  analyses  of  26  occupations,  promotional  lines,  etc. 

A  revised  edition  of  Bulletin  No.  24  on  "  Training  for  foreign 
trade,"  a  bulletin  on  "Training  for  the  steamship  business,"  and  a 
text  for  use  in  teaching,  "Paper  work  in  export  trade,"  prepared  by 
the  Federal  Board,  have  been  published  by  the  Bureau  of  Foreign 


IN  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  35 

and  Domestic  Commerce  as  Nos.  97,  98,  and  85,  respectively,  of  its 
miscellaneous  series. 

During  1918-19-20  the  board  issued  three  series  of  studies  in  con- 
nection with  the  vocational  rehabilitation  of  disabled  soldiers, 
sailors,  and  marines,  viz: 

mention  Series,  Xos.  1-8   (Bulletins  Nos.  5,  6,  15,  25,  29,  32,  33,  59),  of 
\vltuh  the  !u>t  four  deal  with  tuberculous  cases  and  were  prepared  with  the 
of  the  X.-!ii"iia]  Tuberculosis  Association  (see  p.  137). 

KelKiiviiiatii  '!>hs,  .Joint  Series.  Nos.  1-67,  consisting  of  unit  courses 

of  instruction  in  various  school  :;n«l  trade  subjects,  issued  in  cooperation  with 
the  Surgeon  General':-  <  Hiiro.  th<-  r.urean  of  Medicine  and  Surgery  (Navy  De- 
partment), and  the  P.ureati  of  War  Risk  Insurance. 

opportunity  Monoirr.sphs.  Vocational  Rehabilitation  Series,  Nos.  1-44,  con- 
taining descriptions  of  » ••< -uputious  to  aid  disabled  soldiers,  sailors,  and  marines 
in  chousing  a  vocation. 

The  industrial  rehabilitation  division  has  thus  far  been  concerned 
primarily  with  administration,  general  policy,  and  problems  arising 
in  connection  with  the  establishment  of  rehabilitation  work  for  per- 
sons disabled  in  industry  in  the  several  States.  It  has  issued  three 
bulletins  up  to  October,  1021,  viz: 

Industrial    Kehabiliiati..:i    Series:    N«>.    1,  A   Statement  of  Policies    (Bulletin 
No.  r>7)  :  No.  •-'.  General  Administration  and  Case  Procedure  (Bulletin  No.  64)  ; 
:;.  Services  of  .\dvisvnn-ni  and  Cooperation  (Bulletin  No.  70). 

FEDERAL  RESERVE  BOARD. 

DIVISION  OF  ANALYSIS  AND  RESEARCH.  511  Philosophy  Hall.  One 
hundred  and  sixteenth  Street,  New  York?  N.  Y.— H.  Parker  Willis, 
!'.  In  order  to  obtain  data  for  ascertaining  changes  in  the  cost  of 
living  of  bank  employees,  with  a  view  to  affording  a  basis  for  adjust- 
ing salaries  accordingly,  a  questionnaire  was  prepared  by  this  divi- 
sion and  distributed  to  all  employees  of  Federal  reserve  banks  re- 
cei\  ing  salaries  of  less  than  $5,000  per  annum,  requesting  certain  in- 
formation relative  to  either  family  or  individual  expenditures  for  the 
year  IDU'.  The  purpo>e  was  to  determine  the  percentage  of  the  total 
-  £»oing  toward  food,  rent,  clothing,  etc.,  of  a  typical 
familv  or  individual  in  each  salary  group,  in  order  to  give  proper 
weighting  to  the  price  changes  reported  by  the  United  States  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics  at  intervals  of  six  months.  Five  thousand  one 
hundred  and  twenty  returns  from  12  Federal  reserve  districts  have 
been  tabulated;  the  figures  for  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank  of  New 
York  are  published  in  an  article  on  the  investigation  in  the  Federal 
Reserve  Bulletin  for  December,  1920  (p.  1293-1295). 

GOVERNORS*  CONFERENCE,  COMMITTEE  ON  PERSONNEL. — This  com- 
mittee, appointed  at  the  governors'  conference  with  the  Federal  Re- 
serve Board  held  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  April  7  to  10, 1920,  has  under- 
taken a  survey  of  the  whole  field  of  personnel  activities  in  all  of  the 
Federal  reserve  banks,  and  also  in  representative  industrial  and  com- 
mercial concerns.  Under  date  of  July  15,  1920,  it  sent  out  to  the 
banks  and  through  them  to  a  few  other  concerns  in  each  district  a 
comprehensive  questionnaire  in  the  form  of  a  printed  pamphlet  of 
45  pages  quarto,  in  which  the  questions  are  classified  according  to  a 
decimal  system  in  nine  groups,  with  subdivisions.  'To  facilitate  com- 
parison  of  information  relating  to  the  same  subject  from  all  the  banks 
the  instructions  provided  that  the  several  questions  should  be  an- 
swered on  separate  sheets  of  standard  size,  marked  with  the  respective 
classification  numbers.  The  investigation  is  being  conducted  under 


36  I.    FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

the  immediate  direction  of  H.  A.  Hopf ,  organization  counsel,  Federal 
Reserve  Bank  of  New  York,  room  2524,  15  Nassau  Street,  New  York, 
N.  Y.  A  report  on  the  material  received  is  to  be  submitted  to  the 
governors'  conference,  showing  the  present  status  of  personnel  activi- 
ties in  the  Federal  reserve  banks  and  in  other  institutions  and  making 
constructive  recommendations. 

INTERSTATE  COMMERCE  COMMISSION. 

Eighteenth  Street  and  Pennsylvania  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 

BUREAU  OF  LOCOMOTIVE  INSPECTION. — A.  G.  Pack,  chief  inspector. 
This  bureau  administers  the  act  of  February  17,  1911,  as  nmended 
March  4,  1915,  which  empowers  the  commission  to  inspect  and  pre- 
scribe standards  of  safety  for  all  parts  and  appurtenances  of  the  loco- 
motive and  tender,  including  the  boiler.  Its  annual  reports  contain 
statistical  and  other  data  on  accidents  and  casualties  resulting  from 
failures  of  locomotives  and  tenders  and  their  appurtenances  and  on 
defects  found  by  the  inspectors. 

As  it  has  been  found  that  fire-box  failures,  due  to  crown  sheets 
being  overheated,  are  among  the  most  prolific  sources  of  fatal  acci- 
dents, and  that  such  failures  are  frequently  due  to  dependence  on 
gauge  cocks  to  give  a  correct  indication  of  the  height  of  \vater,  when 
in  fact  the  true  level  was  much  lower,  the  bureau  during  the  fiscal 
year  1919-20  made  an  extensive  series  of  tests  for  the  purpose  of  de- 
termining the  action  of  water  in  the  boiler  on  the  water-indicating 
appliances,  with  respect  to  their  correct  registration.  The  results  of 
the  experiments  made  on  a  number  of  locomotives  of  different  classes 
on  14  railroads  in  various  sections  of  the  country  are  given  in  the 
ninth  annual  report  of  the  bureau,  1920  (p.  8-30). 

NAVY  DEPARTMENT. 
Washington,  D.  C. 

BUREAU  OF  NAVIGATION. — L.  D.  Alderman,  educational  adviser. 
This  bureau  has  planned  and  organized  on  the  ships  of  the  Navy  an 
education  system  intended  (1)  to  assist  enlisted  men  in  raising  their 
ratings  in  the  Navy,  and  (2)  to  increase  the  efficiency  of  enlisted  men, 
whether  for  naval  or  civil  life.  It  is  carried  on  according  to  the  self- 
instruction  plan,  each  subject  being  taught  through  a  series  of  lessons. 
The  system  has  been  started  by  selecting  from  the  courses  already 
prepared  by  various  correspondence  schools  and  university  extension 
divisions  those  wrhich  present  the  subjects  in  the  most  simple  and 
direct  manner;  and  the  bureau  is  now  having  courses  prepared  by 
naval  officers  and  others  especially  adapted  to  meet  naval  needs.  The 
subjects  are  offered  in  six  courses,  viz :  Steam  engineering,  electrical 
engineering,  gas  engineering,  navigation,  ordnance  and  gunnery,  yeo- 
manrjr.  A  description  of  the  courses  and  subjects  is  published  in  a 
pamphlet  entitled  "  United  States  Navy  education  system :  Announce- 
ment of  courses"  (rev.  ed.,  Jan.  1921)*. 

DEPARTMENTAL  WAGE  BOARD  or  REVIEW. — It  is  provided  by  law 
that  the  rate  of  wages  of  the  employees  in  the  navy  yards  shall  con- 
form, as  nearly  as  is  consistent  with  the  public  interest,  with  those 
of  private  establishments  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  respective 
yards,  to  be  determined  by  the  commandants  thereof,  subject  to  the 
approval  and  revision  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  who  appoints  a 
board  of  review  to  advise  him.  The  present  board  (John  K.  Robi- 
son.  captain.  United  States  Navy,  senior  member;  W.  D.  Bergman, 


IN  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  37 

chief,  appointment  division,  recorder)  on  August  31,  1921,  issued  its 
"  report  on  the  question  of  wages  for  civilian  employees  of  naval 
establishments  within  continental  limits  of  the  United  States  "  based 
on  the  recommendations  of  local  wage  boards,  public  hearings,  and 
investigations  by  its  members.  An  abstract  of  the  report  and  the 
schedules  of  rates  of  pay.  which  were  approved  by  the  Secretary  of 
the  Navy  and  became  effective  September  16,  are  printed  in  the 
Monthly  Labor  Review  for  October,  1921  (pp.  116-127). 

POST  OFFICE  DEPARTMENT. 

Eleventh  Street  and  Pennsylvania  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 

WELFARE  DEPARTMENT. — Dr.  Lee  K.  Frankel,  welfare  director. 
During  the  summer  of  1921  a  national  welfare  council,  composed 
of  representatives  elected  by  the  postal  employees,  was  organized  to 
consider  matters  affecting  working  conditions,  health,  and  general 
welfare  of  employees  in  post  offices,  mail  trains,  steamships,  and  other 
divisions  of  the  Postal  Service.  A  model  plan  for  constitution  of 
local  welfare  councils,  to  be  organized  in  all  cities  of  sufficient  size 
for  the  discussion  of  matters  of  local  interest,  has  been  adopted  by 
the  national  welfare  council  and  the  welfare  department  and  sent 
out  from  the  office  of  the  Postmaster  General,  October  26,  1921.  It 
is  planned  to  appoint  committees  from  the  permanent  councils  to 
study  questions  of  sanitation,  lighting,  rest  rooms,  first  aid,  medical 
and  nursing  service,  recreation,  etc. 

The  welfare  department  has  recently  sent  out  questionnaires  to 
about  3,000  post  offices  to  obtain  preliminary  data  as  to  existing  work- 
ing conditions,  and  about  100  of  them  have  been  personally  investi- 
gated. These  questionnaires  have  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
post-office  inspectors  to  study  the  conditions  reported  and  submit 
recommendations  thereon  to  this  department. 

UNITED  STATES  PUBLIC  HEALTH  SERVICE. 

Washington,  D.  ('.     Hugh  S.  Gumming,  surgeon  general. 

DIVISION  OF  SCIENTIFIC  RESEARCH. — Asst.  Surg.  Gen.  J.  W.  Schere- 
schewsky  in  charge.  Investigations  of  occupational  diseases  and  in- 
dustrial hygiene  have  since  1914  constituted  part  of  the  work  of  this 
division.  They  are  carried  on  under  the  office  of  industrial  hygiene 
and  sanitation  either  by  the  regular  personnel  of  the  service  or  by 
the  part-time  personnel  in  connection  with  certain  university  medical 
schools.  Statistical  studies  in  connection  with  these  investigations 
are  made  by  the  statistical  office  of  the  division  and  laboratory  work 
is  done  by  the  Hygienic  Laboratory. 

The  general  policy  which  has  been  formulated  is  that  the  funds 
allotted  are  to  be  expended  in  such  manner  as  to  make  known  the 
hazards  of  those  industries  where  present  information  is  inadequate ; 
the  prevalence  of  specific  hazards  from  known  poisonous  elements  or 
compounds;  the  causative  factors  of  prevalent  occupational  dis- 
eases and  in  each  instance  the  preventive  measures  and  routine 
treatment  to  meet  abnormal  conditions  whenever  and  wherever 
found.  The  general  plan  of  work,  which  is  being  followed  as  far  as 
circumstances  permit,  is  to  undertake  each  year  the  study  of  the 
health  hazards  of  one  industry,  the  hazard  distribution  of  one  occu- 
pational poison,  and  the  causation,  treatment,  and  prophylaxis  of  one 
occupational  disease.  Investigations  are  also  undertaken  in  coopera- 


38  I.   FEDERAL,  AGENCIES. 

tion  with  State  and  local  authorities  to  provide  data  on  which  to  base 
the  administration  of  State  labor  laws  and  for  the  improvement  of 
the  sanitation  of  industrial  communities. 

OFFICE  OF  INDUSTRIAL  HYGIEXE  AND  SANITATION.3 — The  results  of 
some  of  the  principal  investigations  conducted  under  the  direction  of 
this  office  have  been  published  in  the  series  of  Public  Health  Bulletins 
as  follows: 

No.  71.  Studies  in  vocational  diseases:  I.  The  health  of  garment  workers, 
by  J.  W.  Schereschewsky.  II.  The  hygienic  conditions  of  illumination  in  work- 
shops of  the  women's  garment  industry,  by  J.  W.  Schereschewsky  and  D.  H. 
Tack.  1915.  224  p.  [See  also  No.  81. J 

No.  73.  Tuberculosis  among  industrial  workers:  Report  of  an  investigation 
made  in  Cincinnati,  with  special  reference  to  predisposing  causes,  by  D.  10. 
llobinson  and  J.  G.  Wilson.  1916.  143  p. 

No.  78.  Influence  of  occupation  on  health  during  adolescence:  Report  of  a 
physical  examination  of  679  male  minors  under  18  in  the  cotton  industries  of 
Massachusetts,  by  M.  V.  Safford.  1916.  52  p. 

No.  81.  Studies  in  vocational  diseases.  The  effect  of  gas-heated  appliances 
upon  the  air  of  workshops,  by  C.  Weisinan.  1917.  84  p.  [Part  of  the  garment 
industry  investigation.] 

No.  85.  Miners'  consumption :  A  study  of  433  cases  of  the  disease  among 
zinc  miners  in  southwestern  Missouri,  by  A.  J.  Lanza ;  with  a  chapter  on 
roentgen  ray  findings  in  miners'  consumption,  by  S.  B.  Childs.  1917.  40  p. 

No.  92.  Color  blindness :  Its  relation  to  other  ocular  conditions,  and  the 
bearing  on  public  health  of  tests  for  color  sense  acuity,  by  G.  L.  Collins.  19 IS. 
29  p.  [One  of  a  series  of  illumination  and  vision  studies  in  Government  depart- 
ments made  in  1915-1918.] 

No.  99.  Studies  of  the  medical  and  surgical  care  of  industrial  workers,  by 
C.  D.  Selby.  1919.  115  p. 

No.  106.  Studies  in  industrial  physiology:  Fatigue  in  relation  to  working 
capacity.  I.  Comparison  of  an  8-hour  plant  and  a  10-hour  plant:  Report 
by  Josephine  Goldmark  and  M.  D.  Hopkins  on  an  investigation  by  P.  S. 
Florence  and  associates,  under  the  general  direction  of  Frederic  S.  Lee. 
1920.  213  p. 

The  following  is  a  partial  list  of  the  investigations  undertaken, 
with  references  to  the  annual  reports  of  the  Surgeon  General,  where 
they  are  briefly  described,  and  to  the  reprints  from  the  Public  Health 
Reports,  in  which  some  of  the  results  are  published : 

(1)  Surveys  of  health  hazards  of  particular  industries,  viz:   Steel  plants 
(annual  report,  1914,  p.  52;   1915,  p.   52;   1916,  pp.  46,  48;   see  al*o  United 
States  Bureau  of  Mines,  Technologic  Paper  No.  102)  ;  chemical  industry   (an- 
nual report,  1917,  p.  38;  1918,  p.  40)  ;  textile  industry    (annual  report,  1917, 
p.  39;   1918,  p.  40);   illuminating  gas  manufacture  and  distribution    (annual 
report,  1917,  p.  38;  1918,  p.  40)  ;  munition  plants  (annual  report,  1918,  p.  33)  ; 
electrochemical  and  abrasive  plants   (annual  report,  1919,  p.  38)  ;  pottery  in- 
dustry  (annual  report,  1919,  p.  39;  1920,  p.  34);  foundry  trades    (umuui!   re- 
port, 1920,  p.  33)  ;  mining  industry,  in  cooperation  with  United  States  Bureau 
of  Mines  (annual  report,  1914-1920)  ;  glass  industry   (in  progress,  1921)  ;  dye 
industry   (planned  for  1921-22). 

(2)  Studies  of  specific  health  hazards,  occupational  diseases   and  poi 
viz:  Heat  hazard  in  industries   (Reprint  No.  441;  projected  for  1921-22)  ;  ef- 
fect of  pneumatic  hammers  on  hands  of  stone  cutters   (annual  report,  1918,  p. 
47;  Reprint  No.  460)  ;  dust  hazards  and  air  conditioning  (annual  report,  1919, 
p.  40  ;  1920,  p.  33  ;  in  progress,  1921 ;  Reprint  Nos.  509,  530,  585,  616) ,  under  the  di- 
rection of  C.-E.  A.  Winslow,  Yale  Medical  School  (see  p.  198)  ;  plumbism  (among 
pottery  workers,  annual  report,  1919,  p.  39 ;  1920,  p.  34 ;  glass  workers,  in  prog- 
ress, 1921 ;  in  sundry  other  trades,  e.  g.,  smelting  and  refining,  white-lead  works, 
storage  batteries,  planned  for  1921-22)  ;  cutting  oil  dermatoses  among  machin- 
ists (annual  report,  1920,  p.  35;  in  progress.  1921)  ;  ink  dermatosis  among  plate 

3  From  October,  1918,  to  June  30,  1910,  the  personnel  was  detailed  to  constitute  the 
division  of  industrial  hygiene  and  medicine  of  the  Working  Conditions  Service  of  the 
Department  of  Labor  (dissolved  after  the  latter  date). 


IN  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  39 

and.  press  printers   (annual  report,  1920,  p.  36)  ;  tellurium  poisoning   (annual 
report,  1920,  p.  36;  Reprint  No.  590). 

(3)  Studies  in  industrial  fatigue,  including  field  investigations  in  S-liour  and 
10-hour  plants,  muscle  tests,  lalx-i  .'{<"•>    studies  of  the  chemical  phenomena  of 
fatigue,  etc.    (annual  report,  1918,  p.  37;  1919,  p.  41;  1920,  p.  37;  in  progress 
1921;   Reprints  No  .  18,  465,  482,  513,  543,  605;   Public  Health  Bulletin 
No.  16,  v.  supra;  Public  Health  Reports,  1919,  p.  1682;  1920,  p.  2445)  begun  in 
1917  in  cooperation  with  the  divisions!  1  committee  on  industrial  fatigue,  Council 
of   National    Defense,   and   continued   since   the   war   under   the   direction   of 
Frederic  S.  Lee,  Columbia  University  (see  p.  176). 

(4)  Local   studies   relating  to  women   in   industry,  viz:   Sanitary    survey   of 
Indiana  industries  employing  woman  labor  (Supplement  No.  17  to  Public  Health 
report-);   health  conditions  surrounding  employment  of  women  in  Wisconsin 
(annual  report,  1916,  p.  44;  1917,  p.  36). 

STATISTICAL  OFFICE. — Edgar  Sydenstricker,  statistician,  in  charge. 
Organized  in  the  winter  of  1918-19  to  provide  a  central  plant,  with 
'-ienced  personnel  and  necessary  mechanical  equipment,  for  the 
tabulation  of  material  collected  in  the  field  and  epidemiological 
studies  carried  on  by  the  Public  Health  Service,  to  furnish  the  tech- 
nical advi»v  required  in  planning  the  statistical  work  and  in  analyz- 
ing the  results  of  such  studies  and  to  conduct  independently  certain 
statistical  studies  bearing  thereon.  Its  activities  have  included  com- 
pilation and  analysis  of  the  morbidity  and  mortality  statistics  col- 
lected in  field  investigations  of  influenza,  studies  of  morbidity  reports 
in  cooperation  with  the  Division  of  Sanitary  Reports  and  Statistics 
and  State  and  municipal  health  departments,  statistical  studies  of  pul- 
monary tuberculosis,  venereal  diseases,  and  child  hygiene,  and  the  or- 
ganization of  industrial  morbidity  statistics. 

The  purposes  of  its  work  in  the  field  of  industrial  morbidity 
statistics  are  (1)  to  secure  current  reports  of  disease  prevalence  among 
waji'e  earners  in  different  plants,  industries,  and  occupations,  and  (2) 
•  ilect  data  relating  to  the  incidence  of  disease  according  to  diag- 
nosis among  wage  earners  of  different  sexes,  ages,  races,  and  occupa- 
tions for  the  study  of  the  influence  of  occupational  and  other  condi- 
tions. It  is  believed  that  when  a  sufficiently  large  number  of  indus- 
trial establishments  and  employees'  sick  benefit  associations  cooperate 
with  the  Public  Health  Service  in  furnishing  regular  reports  of  dis- 
ease pivxalenre-  u  better  basis  will  be  laid  by  the  study  of  industrial 
hygiene  and  for  more  definitely  direct  preventive  measures.  At  the 
present  time  45  sick  benefit  organizations  are  sending  monthly  reports 
and  10  are  sending  annual  or  special  reports  to  this  office,  applying  in 
the  aggregate  to  158,000  employees. 

In  addition  to  statistical  studies  in  its  other  lines  of  work,  the  pub- 
lications from  this  office  include  the  following  papers  dealing  with  in- 
dustrial morbidity,  which  have  appeared  in  the  issues  of  the  Public 
Health  Eeports  indicated  by  date : 

Sickness  records  for  industrial  establishments  (Nov.  14,  1919;  Reprint  No. 
573).  Prepared  in  cooperation  with  the  committee  on  industrial  morbidity 
statistics  of  the  section  on  vital  statistics,  American  Public  Health  Association 
(see  p.  78). 

Keeping  tab  on  sickness  in  the  plant  (Apr.  9,  1920,  Reprint  No.  589). 

Sickness  jind  abscnti-.-!- in  during  1919  in  a  large  industrial  establishment 
(Sept.  10,  1920). 

Sickness  irequency  among  industrial  employees,  1920-21  (Dec.  3,  1920;  Mar.  4, 
July  1,  1921;  Reprints  No.  (.24). 

prevalent  among  steel  workers  in  a  Pennsylvania  city  ^Dec.  31, 1920). 


40  I,   FEDERAL   AGENCIES. 

Also  a  series  of  studies  of  disabling  sickness  and  pellagra  incidence  in  cotton- 
null  villages  of  South  Carolina  (Nov.  22,  1918;  Mar.  19,  July  9  and  16,  Nov.  12, 
1920). 

HYGIENIC  LABORATORY,  Twenty-fifth  and  E  Streets  NW.,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. — Surg.  G.  W.  McCoy,  director.  The  divisions  of  chemis- 
try and  pharmacology  of  this  laboratory  conduct  laboratory  research 
required  in  connection  with  some  of  the  industrial  hygiene  investiga- 
tions undertaken  by  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service.  This 
includes  (1)  chemical  and  bacteriological  analyses  of  samples  col- 
lected in  the  field,  (2)  research  into  simple  tests  to  be  used  in  field 
sampling,  (3)  determinations  of  dosage  injurious  to  workers 
handling  poisonous  elements  and  compounds  found  in  trade  processes, 
and  (4)  physiological  changes  of  the  body  due  to  abnormal  condi- 
tions arising  from  or  inherent  in  industrial  activities.  Thus  in  con- 
nection with  the  investigation  of  trinitrotoluene  poisoning  the  divi- 
sion of  chemistry  developed  the  analytical  procedures  for  the  detec- 
tion of  T.  N.  T.  in  the  atmosphere  (later  applied  to  other  nitro  com- 
pounds) ,  and  studied  the  chemistry  of  T.  N.  T..  its  manufacture  and 
impurities,  and  the  vapor  pressure  and  volatility  of  T.  N.  T.  as  influ- 
enced by  temperature  and  humidity;  and  the  division  of  pharma- 
cology dealt  with  the  toxicological  and  pharmacological  aspects  of 
the  problem,  such  as  the  discovery  of  diagnostic  tests  for  the  early 
recognition  of  poisoning,  the  study  of  absorption  of  the  poison,  and 
the  discovery  of  preventive  measures.  The  principal  findings  were 
published  in  Reprint  No.  534  from  the  Public  Health  Reports,  June 
13,  1919,  and  also  with  studies  of  the  poisonous  properties  of  parazol 
and  the  action  of  mercury  fulminate  on  the  skin,  as  Hygienic  Labora- 
tory Bulletin  No.  126. 

In  connection  with  the  administration  of  the  act  of  Congress  levy- 
ing a  prohibitive  tax  on  white  phosphorus  matches,  the  division  of 
chemistry,  during  1914-15,  examined  samples  of  matches  and  match 
materials  for  the  Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue  and  developed 
a  new  method  for  the  detection  of  white  or  yellow  phosphorus  in  the 
presence  of  other  permissible  forms  (published  as  the  fourth  article 
in  Hygienic  Laboratory  Bulletin  No.  96). 

From  1914  to  1917  this  division  carried  on,  in  cooperation  with  the 
New  York  State  Commission  on  Ventilation  (see  p.  54),  studies  of 
heat  dissipation  from  the  human  body  and  devised  various  types  of 
instrument,  called  the  comfortimeter,  intended  to  record  the  actual 
characteristics  of  the  atmosphere — temperature,  humidity,  and  veloc- 
ity of  air  movement — in  terms  of  physical  comfort. 

It  also  made  a  study  of  the  volatility  of  lead  and  other  metals  from 
molten  type  metal,  under  conditions  existing  in  the  Government 
Printing  Office  in  1916,  and  analyzed  samples  of  dust  and  glazes  in 
connection  with  the  pottery  investigation  by  the  Office  of  Industrial 
Hygiene  and  Sanitation  in  1919. 

RAILROAD  LABOR  BOARD. 

5  North  Wabash  Avenue,  Chicago,  111.    R.  M.  Barton,  chairman. 

This  board  Avas  created  by  section  304  of  the  transportation  act, 
1920  (41  Stat.,  470) ,  to  hear  and  decide  disputes  involving  grievances, 
rules,  or  working  conditions  not  settled  by  the  railroad  boards  of 
labor  adjustment  (provided  for  in  sec.  302)  and  disputes  involving 
wages  or  salaries  not  settled  by  conferences  of  representatives  of  the 


IX  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.  41 

carriers  and  their  employees  or  subordinate  officials  directly  inter- 
ested therein  (sec.  301). 

The  following  studies  have  been  published  by  the  board  as  Wage 
Series.  Reports  Nos.  1  and  2 : 

No.  1.  Average  daily  and  monthly  \vacre  rates  of  railroad  employees  on  class  1 
carriers;  in  effect  under  private  control  (December.  1917);  under  the  United 
States  Railroad  Administration  (January,  1920)  ;  and  under  Decision  No.  2 
(July  2,0,  1920),  United  States  Railroad  Labor  Board.  August,  1920.  12  p., 
j'old.  tables. 

No.  2.  Rules  for  reporting  information  on  railroad  employees,  together  with 
a  classification  and  index  of  steam  railroad  occupations.  May,  1921.  320  p. 
(Prepared  by  the  board  and  approved  by  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission, 
io  be  used  by  carriers  in  reporting  wage  and  compensation  data  to  either 
body.) 

In  decision  No.  119,  April  14, 1921,  providing  for  abrogation  of  the 
national  agreement  entered  into  during  the  period  of  Federal  control, 
the  board  laid  down  16  principles  for  the  settlement  of  disputes  as  to 
rules  and  working  conditions  by  local  conferences  between  the  car- 
riers and  their  employees,  and  a  number  of  interpretations  and  ad- 
denda have  been  issued  since  the  date  of  the  original  decision. 

Decision  Xo.  2±2,  effective  August  16,  1921,  has  determined  the  con- 
ditions under  which  overtime  is  to  be  paid  to  the  employees  comprised 
in  the  six  shop  crafts  on  about  100  railroads  submitting  this  question 
to  the  board.  The  machinists,  boiler  makers,  blacksmiths,  sheet 
metal  workers,  electrical  workers,  and  carmen  and  their  apprentices 
and  helpers  are  affected. 

UNITED  STATES  SHIPPING  BOARD. 

1319  F  Street,  XW..  Washington,  D.  C. 

DIVISION  OF  IxnrsTitiAi.  KF.LATIONS. — In  1921  this  division  pub- 
lished a  "  Codification  of  the  Shipbuilding  Labor  Adjustment  Board* 
awards,  decisions,  and  authorizations"  (341  p.). 

During  1918-19  the  Industrial  Service  Section,  Industrial  Rela- 
tions Group,  Emergency  Fleet  Corporation,  Philadelphia,  prepared 
and  issued  the  following  publications : 

Handbook  on  employment  management  in  the  shipyard:  Bulletin  I,  Organiz- 
ing the  employment  <!»•]. artment.  1918.  Bulletin  2,  The  employment  building. 
1918.  Bulletin  3,  Selection  and  placement  of  the  worker.  1919.  Special  Bul- 
letin, Labor  loss.  1918. 

Aids  to  employment  managers  and  interviewers  on  shipyard  occupations 
with  descriptions  of  such  occupations.  1918. 

Opportunities  in  shipbuilding  for  the  physically  handicapped.     1919. 

The  physical  examination  in  the  employment  department.    1919. 

WAR  DEPARTMENT— GENERAL  STAFF. 

State,  War,  and  Navy  Building.  Washington,  D.  C. 
OPERATIONS  AND  TRAINING  DIVISION  (G3). — Under  the  reorganiza- 
tion of  the  present  year  the  advisory  board  and  the  training  and 
instruction  branch  of  this  division  now  have  charge  of  the  training 
work  of  the  Army  previously  carried  on  by  the  education  and 
recreation  branch  of  the  War  Plans  Division  (now  abolished),  to 
which  the  duties  of  the  Committee  on  Education  and  Special  Train- 

*  The  history  of  this  board  from  its  organization  in  Aujrast,  1017.  to  its  dissolution 
Mar.  :-51,  1!H!X  written  l>y  W.  K.  HotcbUss,  supervising  examiner  for  the  board,  and 
II.  H.  Beager,  its  secretary,  was  published  in  1921  as  Bulletin  of  the  United  States 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  Xo.  283. 


42  I.    FKDKKAL    A<:L-\C 

ing  (organized  February,  1918)  were  transferred  in  September, 
1919.  The  advisory  board,  consisting  of  civilians  (C.  R.  Mann, 
chairman),  formulates  the  plans  for  training  to  be  carried  out  by 
the  training  and  instruction  branch. 

The  method  adopted  by  the  board  has  been  outlined  in  a  mimeo- 
graphed memorandum  "The  technique  of  army  training"  (8  pp.). 
It  involves  (1)  the  preparation  by  the  Army  authorities  of  minimum 
specifications  of  the  personal  characteristics,  skill,  and  knowledge 
needed  to  meet  the  requirements  of  each  of  the  many  grades  and 
ratings  of  the  Army;  (2)  the  preparation  of  standardized  tests  for 
selecting  and  assigning  men;  (3)  the  analysis  of  the  required  skill 
and  knowledge  into  unit  operations  and  information  topics  which 
make  good  instruction  units,  and  the  combination  of  these  into  a 
practical  school  program;  (4)  the  preparation  of  students'  manuals 
and  instructors'  guides;  (5)  the  determination  of  the  average  time 
required  for  men  to  qualify  for  each  grade  or  rating. 

The  personnel  of  the  Division  of  Testing  and  Grading  (D.  Edgar 
Rice,  director)  of  the  research  and  development  service,  recently  located 
at  Camp  Grant,  111.,  has  since  the  reorganization  been  transferred  to 
[Washington,  D.  C.,  to  continue  its  work  under  the  advisory  board. 
The  activities  of  this  division  started  in  the  summer  of  1920,  and  its 
force  of  about  19  men  was  engaged  throughout  the  fall  and  early  win- 
ter in  administering  tests  for  selection  and  assignment  of  men  in  the 
various  Army  camps  and  posts.  Up  to  May,  1921,  about  58,000  men 
had  been  tested  and  classified,  on  the  basis  of  the  Army  intelligence 
tests  and  several  elementary  educational  and  vocational  tests.  The 
following  is  a  brief  statement  of  the  tests  used  and  the  research  and 
development  work  which  the  division  has  undertaken : 

Army  intelligence  test — Alpha. — This  test  of  intelligence  for  literates  used 
during  the  war  has  been  continued  In  use  during  the  past  year,  because  it  was 
thoroughly  standardized  and  an  ample  -supply  of  copies  was  already  on  hand  in 
the  War  Department.  It  is  not  found  to  be  entirely  satisfactory  for  use  with 
Army  men,  as  it  gives  too  much  weight  to  results  of  formal  training  and  the 
division  is  engaged  upon  a  revision  of  this  test  with  a  view  to  adapting  it  more 
accurately  to  the  Army  needs. 

Army  intelligence  test — Beta. — This  test,  used  during  the  war  to  measure 
the  intelligence  of  men  of  a  lowr  degree  of  reading  ability,  has  during  the  past 
year  been  used  chiefly  in  the  testing  of  illiterates  in  the  recruit  educational 
centers.  A  revision  of  it  has  been  undertaken  with  a  view  to  eliminating  the 
difficulty  in  administering  it,  due  to  the  necessity  for  using  a  demonstration 
blackboard. 

Minhruuni  intelligence  test. — As  the  War  Department  has  felt  the  need  of  a 
very  simple  test  of  intelligence  that  may  be  administered  by  recruiting  parties 
and  will  serve  to  segregate  men  of  low  intelligence  from  those  who  will  make 
satisfactory  soldiers,  the  division  is  engaged  upon  the  development  of  a  test 
of  this  sort.  It  will  differ  from  the  alpha,  beta,  and  individual  tests  such  as 
the  Stanford-Binet,  in  that  it  will  not  accurately  classify  men  as  to  mental 
age  or  degree  of  intelligence,  but  is  intended  simply  to  reject  the  unsatisfactory 
by  the  use  of  a  single  critical  score. 

.Minimum  literacy  test. — Developed  over  a  year  ago,  this  test  has  served  satis- 
factorily in  segregating  those  men  who  are  of  such  low  degree  of  literacy 
ability  as  to  require  special  instruction  in  the  recruit  educational  centers. 

( -1  (i  ssifi  cation  literacy  test. — The  purpose  of  this  additional  test,  developed  by 
the  division,  is  to  classify  the  men  in  order  to  determine  at  which  point  their 
training  should  start. 

Test  for  discharge  from  recruit  educational  center. — This  test  is  similar  in 
character  to  the  other  literacy  tests,  but  is  based  to  some  extent  on  the  course  of 
instruction. 


ix  OTHP:R  DEPARTMENTS,  BOARDS,  AND  COMMISSIONS.         43 

The  tests  above  described  have  reference  either  to  the  measurement 
of  intelligence  for  general  purposes  or  to  the  specific  activities  of  the 
recruit  educational  centers.  In  direct  connection  with  the  work  of 
the  Army  schools,  the  following  simple  tests  of  formal  training  and 
mechanical  aptitude  have  been  developed  to  assist  in  properly  assign- 
ing men  to  courses  of  training : 

Arithmetic  test,  used  in  determining:  whether  the  student  is  prepared,  with 
respect  to  a«>iiity  in  the  fundamental  operations  of  arithmetic,  to  enter  various 
vocations  |  courses;  also  to  indicate  the  point  at  which  his  instruction  in 
mathematics  should  br- 

Ifciiflinii   /*•«/.   used   to  determine  whether  the  student  has  sufficient  under- 
standing of  language  to  enter  courses  in  which  the  instruction  is  largely  in 
>-d  form. 

Mechanical-interest  i('*t,  used  to  determine,  in  a  general  way,  the  mechanical 
aptitude  of  applicants  for  vocational  courses.  This  is  imsed  on  ihe  assumption 
that  if  men  have  an  interest  in  iiKx-hanical  work  they  will,  without  special 
1  raining,  pick  up  a  fund  of  information  about  the  more  common  mechanical 
tools  and  operations. 

t-rnf-tftnlc  /r.s/,  used  to  measure  the  specific  information  of  applicants  for 
ional   courses  with  reference  to  the  more  common  trades  taught  in  the 
Army  schools. 

Investigations  are  in  progress  to  select  from  a  variety  of  tests  a 
small  number  that  will  be  most  significant  of  business  ability,  and  to 
develop  tests  of  proficiency  in  (a)  stenography  and  typewriting,  (b) 
certain  vocational  courses,  viz,  machine  work,  automotive  work,  ana 
drafting,  and  (r)  general  education  subjects,  such  as  spelling,  vocab- 
ulary, mathematics,  etc. 

The  tests  that  have  been  used  during  the  past  year  have  been 
printed  or  mimeographed:  their  publication  is  controlled  by  the 
Adjutant  General's  Office,  War  Department. 

This  division  has  also  developed  during  the  past  year  a  standard 
system  of  rating  students  and  a  standard  system  of  certification, 
which  are  now  being  published  by  the  Adjutant  General's  Office 
for  the  use  of  the  service. 


II.  STATE  AND  MUNICIPAL  AGENCIES. 

STATE  AGENCIES. 


CALIFORNIA.     BUREAU  OF  JUVENILE  RESEARCH. 

Whittier,  Calif.  J.  Harold  Whittier,  director. 
Established  by  acts  of  the  State  legislature,  1915  and  1917,  this 
bureau  has  charge  of  intelligence  tests  and  related  investigations  in 
the  three  State  schools  of  California,  viz,  Whittier  State  School, 
Whittier;  California  School  for  Girls,  Ventura;  Preston  School  of 
Industry,  Waterman.  A  staff  of  seven  persons  is  engaged  in  this 
work,  which  is  divided  into  two  main  divisions,  psychological  and 
sociological.  Numerous  studies  made  in  the  field  "of  delinquency 
have  been  published  in  the  Journal  of  Delinquency,  issued  bimonthly 
by  Whittier  State  School,  and  its  supplementary  monographs.  Of 
these  the  two  following  titles  deal  with  vocational  adaptability : 

The  intelligence  of  the  delinquent  boy,  by  T.  Harold  Williams,  Jan.,  1919". 
198  p.  (Journal  of  Delinquency.  Monograph  No.  1.) 

A  statistical  study  of  intelligence  as  a  factor  in  vocational  progress,  by  Karl 
M.  Cowdery.  (Journal  of  Delinquency,  v.  4,  No.  6,  Nov.,  1919,  p.  221-240.) 

CALIFORNIA.     COMMISSION  ON  IMMIGRATION  AND  HOUSING. 

525  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Calif.  Simon  J.  Lubin, 
president. 

Created  by  act  of  June  12,  1913,  and  empowered  to  make  investi- 
gations into  the  condition,  welfare,  and  industrial  opportunities  of 
immigrants  in  the  State,  including  inspection  of  labor  camps,  em- 
ployment agencies,  etc.  It  administers  the  division  of  immigration 
and  housing  of  the  Department  of  Labor  and  Industrial  Relations 
created  by  chapter  604,  Laws  of  1921,  in  effect  July  30. 

The  results  of  the  commission's  studies  of  the  problems  of  migra- 
tory labor  and  sanitation  of  labor  camps  are  summarized  in  its  an- 
nual reports.  It  has  issued  several  editions  of  an  "Advisory  pam- 
phlet on  camp  sanitation  and  housing  "  (T9  p.). 

CALIFORNIA.     INDUSTRIAL  ACCIDENT  COMMISSION. 

525  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Calif.  W.  J.  French,  chair- 
man. 

This  commission,  organized  January  1,  1914,  administers  the  divi- 
sion of  workmen's  compensation  insurance  and  safety  of  the  De- 
partment of  Labor  and  Industrial  Relations  created  by  chapter  604, 
Laws  of  1921,  in  effect  July  30. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  SAFETY. — H.  M.  Wolflin,  superintendent.  Surveys 
of  the  special  hazards  of  various  industries  have  been  made  by  this 
department  and  safety  codes  to  cover  them  have  been  prepared  by 
44 


STATE   AGENCIES.  45 

committees  of  employers,  employees,  and  others  interested  in  safety 
work,  in  cooperation  with  the  commission.  Public  hearings  were 
held  to  discuss  the  tentative  drafts  as  completed  by  the  committees, 
and  after  final  revision  the  following  have  been  adopted  by  the 
commission  and  made  effective  from  the  dates  indicated: 

1010:  Jan.  1 — mine  safety  rules,  general  safety  rules;  Aug.  1 — woodworking 
safety  orders,  engine  safety  orders,  laundry  safety  orders;  Oct.  1 — elevator 
safety  orders. 

11»1 7:  Jan.  1 — electrical  utilization  safety  orders,  air-pressure  tank  safety 
orders,  window-cleaning  safety  orders,  trench  construction  safety  orders;  Mar. 
15 — logging  and  sawmill  safety  orders. 

1918:  J:m.  1— quarry  safety  rules;  Jan.  15 — general  constnu-tion.  safety 
orders;  Dec.  1 — electrical  station  safety  orders. 

1919:  Jan.  1- -safety  rules  for  gold  dredges;  Dec.  1 — tunnel  safety  rules, 
general  lighting  safety  orders. 

1920:  June  1 — steam-shovel  and  locomotive-crane  safety  orders. 

1921 :  Jan.  1 — mine  safety  orders ;  Apr.  1 — petroleum  safety  orders,  shipbuild- 
ing safety  orders. 

In  course  oi  preparation  (1921)  :  X-ray  safety  orders,  gas  welding  and  cut- 
ting safety  orders. 

Further  information  is  given  in  a  paper  on  "  The  safety  move- 
ment in  California.''  by  II.  M.  AVolflin,  in  Proceedings  of  the  Inter- 
national Association  of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commis- 
sions. 1920  (published  as  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  Bulletin 
No.  281). 

CALIFORNIA.     INDUSTRIAL  WELFARE  COMMISSION. 

<s7()  Market  Street.  San  Francisco,  Calif.  A.  B.  C.  Dohrman, 
chairman. 

Created  by  act  of  the  legislature  approved  May  26,  1913  (Laws, 
1913,  c.  324),  to  regulate  working  conditions  and  establish  minimum 
wages  in  occupations,  trades,  and  industries  in  which  women  and 
minors  are  employed,  this  commission  administers  the  division  of 
industrial  welfare  of  the  Department  of  Labor  and  Industrial  Rela- 
tions created  by  chapter  C04,  Laws  of  1921,  in  effect  July  30. 

The  publications  of  the  commission  contain  results  of  investiga- 
tions as  follows : 

Report  on  the  regulation  of  wages,  hours,  and  working  conditions  of  women 
and  minors  in  the  fruit  and  vegetable  canning  industry  of  California.  1917, 
176  p.  (Bulletin  No.  1.) 

Seatinir  of  women  and  minors  in  the  fruit  and  vegetable  canning  industry 
of  California.  1919.  14  p.  (Bulletin  No.  2a.) 

Resume1  of  a  study  of  the  cost  of  living  of  women  workers  in  California, 
made  in  1914.  (In  second  biennial  report,  1915-1916,  p.  19-57.) 

Outline  of  a  policy  concerning  "learners"  in  industry,  by  Meyer  Bloomficld. 
(  In  second  biennial  report.  1915-1916,  p.  69-76.) 

Report  on  effects  of  the  mercantile  order.  (In  third  biennial  report,  1917-1918, 
p.  3O-48.) 

K fleets  of  the  laundry  order.     (In  third  biennial  report,  1917-1918,  p.  58-91.) 

CONNECTICUT.     COMMISSION  ON  CHILD  WELFARE. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

COMMITTEE  ox  DEFECTIVES. — Dr.  Arnold  Gesell,  Yale  University, 
chairman.  The  report  of  this  committee  on  "  Handicapped  children 
in  school  and  court."  published  in  volume  2,  part  4,  of  the  commis- 
sion's report  to  the  governor,  1921,  recommends  (p.  33-36)  voca- 
tional probation  for  defective  youth.  The  subject  is  also  treated  in 
an  article  by  Dr.  Gesell  in  Mental  Hygiene  (v.  5.  No.  2,  Apr.,  1921, 
p.  321-326)1  The  results  of  a  study  made  by  Elizabeth  B.  Bigelow, 


46  II.    STATE    A XD    :\HTXU'JPAL    ACK\; 'IKS. 

under  Dr.  GeselPs  direction  in  connection  with  the  commission's 
work,  are  given  in  an  article  entitled  "  Experiment  to  determine  the 
possibilities  of  subnormal  girls  in  factory  work,"  published  in  Men- 
tal Hygiene  (v.  5,  No.  2,  Apr.,  1921,  p.  302-320). 

CONNECTICUT.    DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR  AND  FACTORY  INSPEC- 
TION. 

Hartford,  Conn.    Miss  Charlotte  Molyneux  Hollo-way,  industrial 

investigator. 

Chapter  233,  Laws  of  1913,  authorized  the  commissioner  of  labor 
and  factory  inspection  to  appoint  a  woman  investigator  to  study 
the  conditions  of  wage-earning  women  and  girls.  Since  then  sep- 
arate biennial  reports  of  the  results  of  these  investigations  have  been 
transmitted  to  the  legislature  and  published.  The  1917-18  and 
1919-20  issues  are  designated  "Reports  on  the  conditions  of  wage- 
earners  in  the  State  "  without  limitation  to  women  and  girls.  One 
thousand  family  budgets  were  secured  in  1919-20. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA.    MINIMUM  WAGE  BOARD. 

Washington,  D.  C.    Miss  Elizabeth  Brandeis,  secretary. 

Created  by  act  of  Congress,  approved  September  19,  1918,  to  estab- 
lish minimum  wages  for  women  on  the  recommendation  of  con- 
ferences composed  of  representatives  of  employers,  employees,  and 
the  public. 

An  investigation  by  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 
furnished  the  data  for  Bulletin  No.  1,  published  by  the  board  in 
January,  1919,  on  "  The  cost  of  living  of  wage-earning  women  in  the 
District  of  Columbia." 

The  following  wage  surveys  have  been  made  by  the  board  and 
results  summarized  in  its  annual  reports:  (1)  Printing,  publishing, 
and  allied  industries;  (2)  mercantile  establishments  (Bulletin  No. 
2)  ;  (3)  hotels,  restaurants,  apartment  houses,  clubs,  and  hospitals 
(Bulletin  No.  3);  (4)  laundries  and  dry-cleaning  establishments; 
(5)  manufacturing  establishments;  (6)  car  cleaners,  and  cleaners, 
maids,  and  elevator  operators  in  office  buildings  and  theaters 
(Monthly  Labor  Review,  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  Novem- 
ber, 1920,  v.  11,  p.  976-982).  The  annual  reports  also  include  sum- 
maries of  the  proceedings  of  the  conferences,  the  budgets  submitted 
to  them,  report  of  a  hearing  on  minimum-wage  rates  for  minors  in 
the  mercantile  industry  (second  annual  report,  p.  33—50),  data  on 
applicants  for  learners'  certificates,  etc. 

CHICAGO  COMMISSION  ON  RACE  RELATIONS. 

414  to  415  Oxford  Building,  118  North  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago, 
111.  Graham  Romeyn  Taylor,  executive  secretary. 

Appointed  by  Gov.  Lowden,  of  Illinois,  following  the  riots  of  July, 
1919,  to  study  and  report  upon  the  broad  question  of  the  relations  be- 
tween the  white  and  colored  races.  The  commission  is  composed  of 
12  members — 6  from 'each  race.  This  work  is  organized  under  six 
committees,  as  follows:  Racial  clashes;  Housing;  Industry;  Crime 
and  police  administration;  Racial  contacts;  Public  opinion. 

The  scope  of  the  work  of  the  committee  on  industry  is  defined  as 
follows: 

To  study  the  industries  employing  Negroes;  expansion  of  opportunities  in 
industry;  relative  locations  of  work  places  and  homes;  wages;  attitude  of  em- 


STATI;  AC; EN c i:  47 

plovers  and  follow  employees  toward  Xo.uro  \voiknien;  efficiency  of  Negroes; 
opportunities  1'or  advancement ;  organized  labor  in  relation  to  the  Negro. 

Since  February  1, 1921,  a  thorough  and  comprehensive  inquiry  into 
the  relations  of  the  races  has  been  undertaken  with  the  assistance  of 
a  staff  of  trained  investigators,  both  white  and  colored,  and  the  co- 
operation of  many  educational,  governmental,  and  volunteer  agencies. 
Throughout  this  study  the  emphasis  has  been  placed  upon  the  social 
and  psychological  aspects  of  the  relations  of  the  white  and  Negro 
groups. 

The  report  is  now  in  process  of  final  editorial  revision  and  will 
be  ready  shortly. 

ILLINOIS.     DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLIC  WELFARE. 

Springfield,  111.    C.  H.  Jenkins,  director  of  public  welfare. 

By  act  of  the  legislature  approved  June  28,  1919  (Laws,  1919,  p. 
f>34).  this  department  was  made  responsible  for  the  rehabilitation  of 
physically  handicapped  persons  residing  in  the  State  of  Illinois. 
By  sec  i  ion  2  (n)  it  is  directed — 

t-»  <-<.ndm-r   in  vest  i.Lrut  ions  and  surveys  of  the  several  industries  located  in  the 
-lain    ili"   «HTMp:iiiuns   \viiliin   c;i<  !i    industry    in   \vhich   physically 
handicapped  per-o;is  <-;in  niter  upon  remunerative  employment  under  favorable 
conditions  and  \\ork  \vii!i  normal  eftVct  iveness  and  i<  .ra-'tirnble 

changes  and  adjustments  in  industrial  operations  and  practices  m'ay  facilitate, 
such  employment. 

Results  of  a  survey  relating  to  the  rehabilitation  of  physically 
handicapped  poisons  in  Illinois  are  given  in  the  official  report  (150 
p.)  published  by  the  department  in  U>Jl.  part  of  which  was  sum- 
marized in  an  article  on  "  Physical  restoration  in  the  rehabilitation 
of  disabled  |  by  \Yillium  T.  Cross,  survey  officer,  in  Modern 

Medicine  (v.  X.  No.  3,  March,  1J»'J1,  p.  14:V-US).  Analyses  were  made 
of  1>2  different  jobs  in  :2'-'>  representative  industries,  showing  that  9 
per  cent  of  the  employees  in  these  plants  were  engaged  at  work  that 
might  be  performed  by  disabled  pel-sons.  (Appendix  F-l  of  the  re- 
port.) 

ILLINOIS.     IMMIGRANTS'  COMMISSION. 

Department  of  Registration  and  Education,  Springfield,  111. 

Created  in  the  Department  of  Registration  and  Education  of  the 
State  of  Illinois  by  an  amendment  to  the  civil  administrative  code 
approved  June  10,  1919  (Laws,  1919,  p.  8),  and  directed  to  investi- 
gate the  conditions  of  employment  and  standards  of  housing  and  liv- 
ing, social  organizations,  and  educational  needs  of  the  foreign  born 
in  the  State.  The  results  of  its  investigations  completed  thus  far, 
under  the  direction  of  Miss  Grace  Abbott,  have  been  published  in  two 
Bulletins : 

No.  1.  The  educational  needs  of  immigrants  in  Illinois.     1920.     37  p. 

No.!'.  The  immigrant   and  conl-inining  communities  of  Illinois.     1020.     43  p. 

^  The  work  of  the  commission  was  suspended  June  30,  1921,  when 
Gov.  Small  vetoed  its  appropriations  for  the  ensuing  fiscal  year.  The 
office  in  Chicago  has  been  closed  and  the  records  have  been  transferred 
to  the  department  in  Springfield,  111.  The  data  obtained  in  an  inves- 
tigation of  Mexicans  in  labor  camps,  practically  completed,  was 
turned  over  to  the  Immigrants'  Protective  League,  Chicago,  which 
may  prepare  the  material  for  publication.  This  league  had  supple- 


48  II.    STATE   AND   MUNICIPAL   Ad  EX  t 'IKS. 

mented  the  State  appropriations  by  approximately  an  equal  amount 
from  its  own  funds  in  order  to  extend  the  work  of  the  commission. 

KANSAS.    COURT  OF  INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS. 
Topeka,  Kans. 

A  tribunal  of  three  judges  created  by  act  of  the  special  session  of 
the  legislature  in  January,  1920,  to  regulate  industrial  relations  in 
all  employments  and  industries  concerned  with  the  production  and 
distribution  of  food,  clothing,  and  fuel  and  in  all  public  utilities. 
Decisions  in  cases  heard  before  this  court  to  date  have  dealt  with 
wage  scales,  train  crews,  and  hours  of  labor  on  interurban  railways, 
cessation  or  limitation  of  work  in  flour  mills,  "  one  man  one  job " 
policy  in  a  case  of  seasonal  employment,  etc. 

By  act  of  March  16,  1921,  the  Industrial  Welfare  Commission  and 
the  Department  of  Labor  were  consolidated  with  this  court. 

The  women's  division  of  the  Industrial  Welfare  Commission  (Miss 
Linna  E.  Bresette,  director  of  women's  work)  is  making  a  survey 
of  the  cost  of  living  of  the  women  of  the  State,  to  include  the  31 
towns  in  which  the  United  States  Women's  Bureau  made  its  study 
of  hours  and  wages  in  1920.  (See  p.  23.)  The  plan  of  procedure  is 
described  briefly  in  Monthly  Labor  Review  of  the  United  States 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  August,  1921  (p.  206). 

MASSACHUSETTS.     DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION. 

State  House,  Boston,  Mass. 

DIVISION  OF  UNIVERSITY  EXTENSION. — James  A.  Moycr,  director. 
This  division  has  given  special  attention  to  problems  of  immigrant 
education  in  the  industries  and  two  recent  numbers  of  the  Bulletin 
of  the  Department  of  Education  have  been  devoted  to  this  subject, 


Volume  5,  No.  6  (whole  No.  32)  :  Proceedings  of  the  State  eonlVivmv  on  im- 
migrant education  in  Massachusetts  industries,  Plymouth,  Mass.,  Sept.  10-18, 
1920.  (Under  the  joint  auspices  of  the  department  and  the  Associated  Indus- 
tries of  Massachusetts.)  124  p. 

Volume  6.  No.  4  (whole  No.  36)  :  Adult  immigrant  education  in  Massachusetts, 
1920-21.  19  p. 

VOCATIONAL  DIVISION. — This  division  has  recently  inaugurated  a 
program  for  the  training  of  foremen.  Representatives  from  a  num- 
ber of  different  industries  are  being  trained  in  various  industrial 
cities  for  conference  leaders.  They  Avill  take  charge  of  conferences 
and  classes  for  foremen  on  returning  to  their  respective  plants. 

MASSACHUSETTS.     DEPARTMENT  OF  INDUSTRIAL  ACCIDENTS. 

Room  272,  State  House,  Boston,  Mass. 

VOCATIONAL  TRAINING  DIVISION. — Ernest  L.  Locke,  director. 
Created  under  the  Industrial  Accident  Board  (now  Department  of 
Industrial  Accidents)  by  act  of  May  28,  1918,  for  the  rehabilitation 
of  industrial  cripples,  this  division  has  made  several  surveys  of  in- 
dustries, involving  analyses  of  physical  requirements  for  particular 
jobs,  to  ascertain  the  opportunities  for  handicapped  persons.  These 
investigations  have  covered  storage  battery  making  and  repairing, 
decorative  plastering,  sign  painting,  etc.  The  results  have  not  been 
published  but  are  available  in  the  files  of  the  division.5 

5  Additional  information  on  rehabilitation  work  in  Massachusetts  is  siyon  in  the  Amer- 
ican Labor  Legislation  Review,  Mar.,  1919  (y.  9,  No.  1,  p.  126-129),  and  in  Proceedings  of 
International  Association  of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commissions,  1920.  (U.  S. 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  Bulletin  No.  281,  p.  123-128.) 


STATE    AGENCIES.  49 

MASSACHUSETTS.     DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR  AND  INDUSTRIES. 

State  House,  Boston,  Mass.  E.  Leroy  Sweetser,  Commissioner 
of  Labor  and  Industries. 

The  Department  of  Labor  and  Industries  is  one  of  the  20  adminis- 
trative divisions  into  which  the  hundred  or  more  boards,  depart- 
ments, and  commissions  of  the  Commonwealth  have  been  consolidated 
by  the  reorganization  act  of  1919  (General  acts,  1919,  ch.  350).  It 
supersedes  the  Board  of  Labor  and  Industries;  the  Board  of  Con- 
ciliation and  Arbitration;  the  Minimum  Wage  Commission;  the 
divisions  of  labor  statistics,  manufactures  statistics,  and  free  em- 
ployment offices  of  the  Bureau  of  Statistics,  and  the  offices  of  the 
Commissioner  of  Standards  and  the  Surveyor  General  of  Lumber; 
and  by  act  of  May  25,  1920,  the  Commission  on  Foreign  and  Domes- 
tic Commerce  was  placed  under  it.  Its  work  is  organized  under 
divisions  of  Industrial  Safety.  Statistics,  Minimum  Wage,  and 
Standards  and  the  Board  of  Conciliation  and  Arbitration.  The  Bul- 
letin of  Current  Activities  (v.  1,  No.  1,  June,  1920)  describes  the 
work  of  the  department  and  its  several  divisions  and  explains  how 
the  functions  of  the  former  boards  and  commissions  included  in  the 
department  are  carried  on  under  the  reorganization. 

DIVISION  OF  INDISTKIAL  SAI-KTY. — John  P.  Meade,  director.  This 
division  continues  the  factory  inspection  work  of  the  Board  of 
Labor  and  Industries  which,  prior  to  the  reorganization  in  1919,  had 
prepared  and  published  in  the  series  of  Industrial  Bulletins  sugges- 
tions, rules,  and  regulations  on  the  following  subjects;  Protection  of 
eyes  and  prevention  of  accidents  (No.  5);  prevention  of  anthrax 
(No.  (>)  ;  compressed-air  work  (No.  7)  ;  safety  and  machinery  stand- 
ards (No.  9)  ;  working  conditions  in  foundries  and  the  employment 
of  women  in  core  rooms  (No.  10)  :  safety  in  the  manufacture  of  ben- 
zene derivatives  and  explosives  (No.  11)  ;  prevention  of  accidents  in 
building  operations  (No.  12)  ;  painting  business  (No.  13)  ;  require- 
ments for  the  care  of  employees  injured  or  taken  ill  in  industrial 
establishments  (No.  14). 

The  present  division  has  added  Industrial  Bulletins  Nos.  15  and  16: 

No.  15.  Conserving  children  in  the  industries  of  Massachusetts.  1920.  20  p. 
I  For  the  teaching  of  safety  to  working  children  in  the  continuation  schools.) 

No.  16.  Rules  and  regulations  for  safeguarding  woodworking  machinery. 
1920. 

Studies  dealing  with  industrial  health  recently  made  by  this  divi- 
sion include  an  investigation  of  tobacco  factories,  with  special  refer- 
ence to  the  effect  of  the  work  upon  women  and  children,  and  an 
investigation  of  the  health  hazards  of  the  granite-cutting  industry. 
(Annual  report,  1920,  pp.  38-40.)  The  field  work  of  a  study  of 
the  employment  of  women  in  laundries,  with  special  reference  to 
the  effect  of  the  work  upon  health,  has  recently  been  completed.  The 
inspection  force  is  engaged  at  present  in  acquiring  information  rela- 
tive to  accidents  occurring  on  the  power  punch  press,  with  a  view  to 
securing  better  guarding  on  a  type  of  machine  that  is  productive  of 
more  permanent  disabling  injuries  than  any  other  in  the  industries 
of  the  State.  An  investigation  of  the  type  and  character  of  first-aid 
treatment  rendered  injured  persons  in  the  industries  is  to  commence 
shortly. 

70723°— Bull.  299—21 4 


50  II.    STATK    AND    MUNICIPAL    AGENCIES. 

the  outcome  of  an  investigation  in  1020  a  safety  council  has 
been  or-j^ini/ei!  with  the  object  of  reducing  accidents  to  street  railway 
and  steam  railway  employe. 

DIVISION  OF  ]\J  — Ethel  M.  Johnson,  assistant  com- 

missioner, in  charge.  The  Minimum  Wage  -Commission,  whose 
powers  are  now  exercised  by  three  associate  commissioners  of  the 
department,  was  created  in  *1912  and  has  published  the  result 
its  investigations  of  the  wages  of  women  in  a  series  of  23  Bulletins 
dealing  with  the  following  industries:  Brush  factories  (Nos.  1,  3,  7)  ; 
corset  factories  (Nos.  2,  21);  candy  factories  (Xos.  4,  18);  < 
dries  (.~S7o,  5)  ;  retail  stores  (Nos.  6,  12)  ;  paper-box  industry  (Nos.  8, 
22)  ;  women's  clothing  factories  (Nos.  9,  14)  ;  hosiery  and  knit  goods 
factories  (No.  10)  ;  men's  clothing  and  raincoat  factories  (Nos.  13, 
15)  ;  office  and  other  building  cleaners  (No.  16)  ;  hotels  and  restau- 
rants (N"o.  17)  ;  canning  and  preserving  establishments  (No.  19)  ; 
millinery  industry  (No.  20)  ;  manufacture  of  minor  lines  of  confec- 
tionery and  food  preparations  (No.  23). 

During  1920  this  division  made  investigations  of  the  wages  of 
women  employed  by  firms  manufacturing  druggists'  preparations, 
compounds,  and  proprietary  medicines,  and  in  establishments  manu- 
facturing stationery  goods  arid  envelopes.  (Annual  report,  1920, 
pp.  67-69.)  It  is  planning  a  study  of  the  public  housekeeping  occu- 
pation, to  include  hotels  and  restaurants,  institutions  such  as  hos- 
pitals and  homes,  apartment  houses,  and  similar  establishments. 

A  handbook  of  information  for  wage  board  members  entitled 
"Wage  Boards  and  Their  Work"  (11  pj  was  published  in  1920. 

DIVISION  or  STATISTICS. — Roswell  F.  Phelps,  director.  This  divi- 
sion continues  the  annual  reports  issued  by  its  predecessor,  the  Bu- 
reau of  Statistics,6  on  statistics  of  labor  (issued  in  parts  as  labor 
bulletins),  statistics  of  manufactures,  and  public  employment  of- 
fices ;  and  since  March,  1920,  lias  published  quarterly  the  Massachus- 
setts  Industrial  Review,  superseding  the  "  Quarterly  report  on  em- 
ployment in  Massachusetts.  It  finished  and  published  in  1920,  as 
Labor  Bulletin  No.  132,  the  results  of  a  special  survey  of  "  Wages 
and  hours  of  labor  in  the  metal  trades  in  Massachusetts,  1914—1910  " 
(72  p.),  which  includes  a  chapter  giving  classification  and  descrip- 
tion of  occupations. 

MASSACHUSETTS.    BOSTON  PSYCHOPATHIC  HOSPITAL. 

74  Fenwood  Road,  Boston,  Mass.     <?'.  Macfie  Campbell,  M.  D., 
director. 

This  institution  was  the  Psychopathic  Department  of  Boston  State 
Hospital  from  1912  to  1916,  when  it  became  a  separate  establishment 
under  the  Commission  (now  Department)  of  Mental  Diseases,  cre- 
ated in  that  year. 

The  scientific  papers  of  the  staff,  reprinted  from  various  journals, 
have  been  issued  in  collected  form  as  u  Boston  State  Hospital- 
Collected  contributions,"  1913-1915  (three  volumes),  continued  by 
the  quarterly  Bulletin  of  the  Commission  (now  Department)  of 
Mental  Diseases  (v.  1-4,  1917-1920). 

6  See  the  Massachusetts  I'.mvau  of  Statistics,  I80'.)-10ir>  :  ;\  sketch  of  it;;  history,  or- 
ganization, and  functions,  together  with  a  list  of  publication*  and  illustrative  charts, 
by  C.  F.  Gettemy.  1915.  115  p. 


STATK    ACJEXC'IES.  61 

The  psychiatric  problems  of  industry  have  been  of  special  interest 
to  this  institution  from  the  beginning.  Shortly  after  it  was  opened 
;  ferred  to  it  for  mental  tests  and  examinations  as  to 
mental  disease  from  the  Industrial  Accident  Board  of  Massachu- 
setts; and  many  problems  concerning  da.  -ilowances,  and  com- 
pensation had  to  be  looked  into  with  the  tests  devised  by  its  psy- 
chologists. Another  group  of  cases  that  have  been  investigated  is 
that  of  the  occupation-neuroses.  Through  the  'Social  Service  of  the 

of  the  i>at hie  employee  arid 

the  relation  between  unemployment  and  mental  diseases.     The  pub- 
lished results  of  these  researches  include  the  following: 

,-r,  H.  M.     rii"ini>l.).vim'iit  :in<!  personality:  a  .study  of  psychopathic  < 

BIT,  p.  10-24.) 

.1  •  rrett,  Mary  ('.  ^niployee:  a  problem  of  industry.     (Medi- 

cine and  Siir.Mrry.  Sept..  11*17.  )».  727-7-41.) 

-     SheJl-shorK  ; -.njilo.viH's  :   luMirux-s  in  civil  iii'e  having  u  sudden  or  critical 
origin.     C\h-tii;-iju>  and  Surgery,  v.  -.  N<>.  l',  M,-i 

Briggs,  T,.  AVrnon.  OrmpMtionsM  and  industrial  therapy.  How  can  this 
important.  Itnui.-h  <>r  treatment  of  mentally  111  be  extended  and  improved? 

••r.  .Jour,  of  In-  .   7-t.  No.  8,  48. ) 

Southard.   Iv   K.      •  on  on   illness   Mi   in.l'is::  >M   and  prevcution. 

•'.),  p.  GTS 

During  1910-iiO  further  investigations  in  the  mental  hygiene  of 

industry  were  undertaken  by  the  late  director,  Dr.  E.  E.  Southard, 

under  a  grant  from  Knginccring  Foundation  (see  p.  102),  which  pub- 

•  !  j'hree  papers  completed  by  him,  as  Nos.  1  to  3  of  its  reprint 

(S.     A  report  of  pr-  ork  was  published  bv  Miss 

!Mary   (\  .Janvtt,  v.'ho  »-(»llaborate«l   Avith  him,  in  Mental  Hygiene 

(v.  4,  No.  4.  Oct.,  1920). 

In  the  past  t\vo  yeai-s  an  industrial  researcli  worker  (Miss  Clara 
W.  Butl;  her  time  in  the  ire  to  this  prob- 

lem and  the  results  of  the  study  are  now  being  analyzed.    It  c< 
(1)  intci  u  a  few  men,  with  special  attention 

to  employment  adjustment.  (2)  industrial  histories  covering  details 
of  jobs  held  by  patiei.ts  t->r  liv:-  \  >re  admission  to  the  Psycho- 

pathic Hospital — details  obtained  from  both  employers  and  patients, 
(3)  a  brief  survey  of  the  industrial  aspects  of  the  out-patient  service 
of  the  hospital,  (±)  a  bibliography  of  the  "human  element  in  indus- 
i'rom  the  psychiatric  point  of  view.  ^ 

Several  papers  in  the  above  collection  deal  with  psychiatric  social 
service,  its  functions  and  the  preparation  required  for  it;  and  in 
order  to  provide  a  supply  of  trained  workers  in  this  field  the  Boston 
Psychopathic  Hospital  staff  in  1918  cooperated  in  the  establishment 
of  a  training  school  of  psychiatric  social  work  at  Smith  College. 
(Seep.  104.) 

PSYCHOLOGICAL  LABORATORY. — F.  L.  Wells,  chief.  The  Yerkes- 
Bridges  point  scale  was  devised  in  this  laboratory,  while  Dr.  Yerkes 
here  as  psychologist.  The  following  papers,  dealing  with  this 
scale  and  its  application  and  other  similar  researches,  have  been  pub- 
lished, in  addition  to  studies  dealing  specially  with  criminals  and 
the  insane : 

Yorkos,  Robert  M..  and  Brides  J.  \V.     The  point  scale:  a  new  method  for 
iriiur  mental  capacity.      (Boston  Med.  and   Surg.  Jour.,  v.  171,  No.  23, 
Dec.  3,  1914.) 


52  II.    STATE   AND   MUNICIPAL   AGENCIES. 

Yerkes.  II.  M.,  and  Anderson,  Helen  M.  The  importance  of  social  status  as 
indicated  by  the  results  of  the  point  scale  method  of  measuring  mental  capacity. 
(Jour.  Ed uc.  Psychol.,  Mar.,  1915.) 

Yerkes.  H.  M.,  and  Wood,  Louise.     Methods  of  expressing  results  of  measure- 
ments of  intelligence:  coefficient  of  intelligence.     (Jour.  Educ    Psychol     Dec 
1916,  v.  7,  No.  10,  p.  593-606.) 

Rossoy,  C.  S.  The  Yerkes-Bridges  point  scale:  as  applied  to  candidates  for 
employment  at  the  Psychopathic  Hospital.  (Boston  Med.  and  Surg  Jour  Dec 
7,  1916,  v.  175,  No.  23,  p.  822-824.) 

Yerkes,   R.  M.,   and   Rossey,  G.   S.     A  point  scale  for  the  measurement  of 
intelligence  in  adolescent  and  adult  individuals.     (Boston  Med.  and  Surg  Jour 
Apr.  19,  1917,  v.  176,  No.  16,  p.  546-573.) 

Foster,  Josephine  C.,  and  Taylor,  Grace  A.  The  applicability  of  mental  tests 
to  persons  over  50  years  of  age.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  v.  4,  No.  1,  Mar.,  1920, 
p.  39-58.) 

MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL  FOR  THE  FEEBLE-MINDED. 

Waverley,  Mass.  Walter  E,  Fernald,  M.  D.,  superintendent. 
This  institution  has  made  a  survey  of  the  subsequent  careers  of  its 
discharged  patients,  including  men  employed  in  39  different  occupa- 
tions. A  summary  of  the  results  was  published  in  its  seventy-second 
annual  report  for  the  year  ending  November  30,  1919,  and  also  issued 
separately  under  the  caption  "After-care  study  of  the  patients  dis- 
charged from  Waverley  for  a  period  of  25  years,"  by  W.  E.  Fer- 
nald (9  p.). 

MINNESOTA.     DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. 

DIVISION  OF  REEDUCATION.— Oscar  M.  Sullivan,  director.  This 
division  by  its  research  work  has  added  materially  to  the  list  of 
occupations  open  to  different  types  of  handicapped  men.  Studies 
have  been  made  by  members  of  the  staff  in  typical  plants,  and  the 
various  processes  analyzed,  with  a  view  to  discovering  new  oppor- 
tunities for  such  persons. 

MINNESOTA.     INDUSTRIAL   COMMISSION. 

St.  Paul,  Minn. 

BUREAU  OF  WOMEN  AND  CHILDREN. — Louis  E.  Schutz,  superintend- 
ent. During  1918  this  bureau,  in  conjunction  with  the  Women  in 
Industry  Committee,  Council  of  National  Defense,  carried  on  field 
investigations  on  the  industrial  employment  of  women  in  the  State. 
The  report  written  by  Dr.  Carol  Aronovici  and  entitled  "  Women  in 
industry  in  Minnesota  in  1918  "  was  published  by  the  bureau  in  1920 
(36  p.). 

MINNESOTA  SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE-MINDED. 

Faribault,  Minn. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  RESEARCH. — F.  Kuhlmann.  director.  A  number  of 
studies  of  feeble-minded  and  tests  of  intelligence  of  children  have 
been  published  from  this  department,  principally  in  the  Journal  of 
Psycho-Asthenics,  1911-1916. 

A  revision  of  the  Binet- Simon  system  by  Dr.  F.  Kuhlmann,  was 
issued  as  a  monograph  supplement  to  the  1912  volume  of  this  journal ; 
and  a  further  extension  and  revision  by  the  same  author  was  printed 
by  the  institution  in  1917.  These  are  to  be  superseded  shortly  by 
the  following  work: 

Kulhmaim,  F.  A  handbook  of  mental  tests ;  a  further  extension  and  revision 
of  the  Binet-Simon  scale.  Baltimore,  Warwick  and  York,  1921.  (In  press.) 


STATE   AGENCIES.  53 

A  paper  on  "  Results  of  mental  reexsmii nations  of  600  feeble-minded 
over  a  period  of  10  years/'  by  Dr.  Kuhlmann,  presented  before  the 
American  Association  for  the  Study  of  Feeble-minded  in  1920  is  to 
appear  in  its  proceedings. 

NEW  JERSEY.     DEPARTMENT  OF  INSTITUTIONS  AND  AGENCIES. 

State  Hospital,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

DIVISION  OF  CLASSIFICATION  AND  EDUCATION. — Edgar  A.  Doll, 
director.  Since  February  1919,  this  division  has  been  making  psycho- 
logical examinations  of  the  prisoners  in  New  Jersey  State  prison  by 
the  Army  group  test  alpha  supplemented  by  individual  psychiatric 
and  psychological  examinations.  Its  report  is  included  in  the  annual 
report  of  Now  Jersey  State  prison;  papers  on  the  criminological  re- 
sults entitled  UA  study  of  multiple  criminal  factors"  and  "The  com- 
parative intelligence  of  prisoners,"  by  E.  A.  Doll,  were  published  in 
the  Journal  of  Criminal  Law  and  Criminology  for  May  and  July 
1920. 

A  program  of  research  in  the  application  of  psychological  tests  for 
the  purposes  of  vocational  education  and  industrial  placement  in  the 
prison,  outlined  in  the  annual  report  for  1919  (p.  70^  74-77),  is 
being  carried  out.  Surveys  have  been  made  of  the  prison  industries 
and  are  to  be  followed  by  detailed  analyses  of  the  wrork  processes 
from  the  psychological  point  of  view.  This  phase  of  the  division's 
work  is  discussed  in  an  article  on  u  Intelligence  and  industrial  tests 
in  institutional  administration,"  by  E.  A.  Doll,  in  the  Journal  of 
Delinquency  (v.  r>.  Xo.  <>,  Nov.,  1920). 

NEW  JERSEY.     DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR. 

Trenton,  X.  J.    Lewis  T.  Bryant,  commisioner. 
P>rm:Ai    OF   Ki.i:r-n:irAL  .\M>   Mi:<  IIAMCAL  EQUIPMENT. — Rowland 
H.  Leveridge.  chief.     This  bureau  has  prepared  and  published  the 
following  safety  codes  and  regulations: 

(Jrneral  rules  for  the  construct  ion  and  installation  of  fire-alarm  signal 
systems  for  factories,  mills,  and  other  work  places.  1919.  33  p. 

Code-  of  light  ing  f<ir  factories,  mills,  arid  other  work  places.     1918.    42  p. 

Safety  standards  for  transmission  machinery  and  all  mechanically  driven 
equipment.  l!>ts.  13  p.  (Also  in  ami.  rep.,  1019.  p.  39-49.) 

Safciy  standards  relating  to  the  use  and  care  of  abrasive  wheels.  1919. 
23  p.  (Also  in  aim.  rep.,  1919,  p.  21-38.) 

BUREAU  OF  EXPLOSIVES. — Charles  H.  Weeks,  chief.     Organized  in 

1917,  because  of  the  great  increase  in  the  manufacture  of  explosives 
in  New  Jersey  during  the  war,  this  bureau  prepared  and  issued : 

Laws  and  safety  standards  for  the  manufacture  and  storage  of  explosives. 

1918.  44  p. 

BUREAU  OF  HYGIENE  AND  SANITATION. — John  Roach,  chief.  This 
bureau  carries  on  investigations  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  sani- 
tary and  safety  standards  and  has  issued  the  following  bulletins : 

Sanitary  standards  for  the  felt  hatting-  industry.     1915.     94  p. 

Sanitary  and  engineering  industrial  standards.  1916.  .  36  p.  (Mainly  speci- 
fications and  regulations  for  the  removal  of  dust,  fumes,  etc.) 

Sanitary  industrial  standards.     1917.     4  p. 

Safety  standards  for  lead  corroders  and  lead  oxidizers,  paint  grinders,  dry 
color  manufacture.  1917.  28  p. 

Instructions  for  the  inspection  of  plants  where  anilin  is  produced  or  handled. 
l'.)17.  ii  p.  (Also  in  aim.  rep.,  I'.Jlb',  p.  53-55.) 

Safety  standards  for  the  manufacture  of  nitro  and  amido  compounds.  1919. 
18  p. 


5-1  IE.    STATE    AND    M.I   XIC1PAL   AGENCIES. 

Eecent  annual  reports  of  the  Department  of  1>abor  include  sum- 
maries of  special  investigations,  text  of  regulation-,  etc.,  made  by 
this  bureau  in  various  industries,  viz: 

1!»15:  Summaries  of  special  investigations  in  potteries,  porcelain  plants, 
mills,  lithographing  plants,  and  the  manufacture  of  pearl  billions  (p.  30-49). 

1916:  Investigation  of  munitions  hazards  (p.  42-43)  ;  survey  of  the  iron 
foundries  in  the  State  (p.  45-52)  ;  summary  on  chomh-al  trades  with  ttv4  ques- 

tors  (p.  53-81)  ;  paint  and  dry  color  trades  (p.  81-8i>). 

1917:   Invesl-.iaratiou  of  the  lunch  problem  in  various  industries   (p.  30-83); 
.i.ry  standards  for  power  laundries   (p.  33-40)  ;  tannery  investigation  and 
anthrax  hazard  (p.  54- 

1919:  First-aid  and  hospital  equipment  in  New  Jersey  industrial  plants  (p. 
59-78);  schedule  of  a  sanitary  survey  of  the  poti"ry  industry  by  (he 

United  States  Public  Health  Service  in  cooperation  with  the  bureau,  ;•<>  del  er- 
mine- the  risk  to  health  in  this  industry  resulting  from  the  use  of  lead  sluze 
(p.    79-86)  ;    standards   for   brass    and   bronze    foundries    and    metal-fini. 
.processes  (p.  92-110). 

NEW  YORK  (STATE).     COMMISSION  ON  VENTILATION. 
Prof.  C.-E.  A.  Winslow,  Yale  University,  chairman. 

Nominated  by  the  New  York  Association  for  Improving  the  Con- 
dition of  the  Poor  and  appointed  by  the  governor  of  New  York  State 
in  June,  1913,  this  commission  was  endowed  with  $50,000  by  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Milbank  Anderson  to  be  devoted  to  the  study  of  the  fun- 
damental problems  of  ventilation,  with-  a  view  to  determining  what 
atmospheric  conditions  are  most  favorable  for  human  health  and 
efficiency,  and  how  they  may  most  certainly  and  economically  be 
maintained,  as  part  of  the  original  program  of  the  department  of 
social  welfare  of  the  A.  I.  C.  P.  (see  p.  141).  An  additional  sum  of 
$25,000  was  provided  by  Mrs.  Anderson  in  1915. 

The  complete  report  of  the  work  of  the  commission  has  not  yet 
been  published ;  but  progress  reports  are  found  in  the  A.  I.  C.  P.  year- 
books for  1913,  1914,  and  1915,  Journal  of  Industrial  and  Engineer- 
ing Chemistry  (v.  6,  No.  3,  March,  1914),  Journal  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  November  7,  1914  (v.  63,  p.  1620-1628),  Ameri- 
can Journal  of  Public  Health  (v.  5,  No.  2,  1915),  papers  read  at  the 
annual  meetings  of  the  American  Society  of  Heating  and  Ventilating. 
Engineers  in  1915  and  1916  by  D.  D.  Kimball  (engineer  rnemb 
the  commission)  and  George  T .  Palmer  (chief  of  investigating  staff), 
and  articles  in  Science  by  C.-E.  A.  Winslow  (n.  s.,  v.  41,  p.  625-(>-'G) 
and  Frederic  S.  Lee  (n.  s.,  v.  44,  p.  183-190). 

An  experiment  chamber  wras  fitted  up  at  the  College  of  the  City 
of  New  York  for  studies  of  the  effect  of  accurately  controlled  air 
conditions..  Experiments  were  also  made  in  New  York  City  school- 
rooms; and  by  cooperative  work  in  Springfield,  Mass,  (at  the  Inter^ 
national  Y.  M.  C.  A.  College  gymnasium),  and  the  Minneapolis 
schools  the  use  of  recirculated  air,  washed  and  conditioned  as  to  tem- 
perature, was  investigated.  The  commission  also  cooperated  in  spe- 
cial investigations  with  the  Safety  Institute  of  America  (see  p.  149) 
and  the  Framingham  community 'health  and  tuberculosis  demonstra- 
tion of  the  National  Tuberculosis  Association  (see  p.  136)  and  in 
other  researches. 


STATE   AGENC!  55 

The  scientific  contributions  by  the  commission's  investigators  ;nv 
published  in  various  journals,  including : 

(1)  Papers  on  methods  and  appartu 

Lee,  Frederic  S.  The  rxKerimenhil  -methods  of  the  New  York  State  Conrmis- 
sion  of  Ventilation.  (Proc,  Soc.  Exper,  Biol.  and  Med.,  1915,  v.  12,  p.  113r-114.) 

Palmar,    •  T.      A    new    se  -n   of 

aerial  dust-     '  Vmer.  Jour.  Publ.  Health,  v.  (5.  No.  1,  p.  54-5:1.) 

A  study  of  methods  tor  determining  air  dnstiness.     (Amer.  .Tour.  Publ. 

NO.    10.) 

\Yiiisio\v.  c.-K.  A.  The  katatherroometer  as  a  measure  of  the  effect  of  atmos- 
pheric coj.  ifort.  (Hek'iice.  n.  s.,  v.  4?>.  ]>.  7KV-71JU 

(2)  Papeis  on  physiological  effects  of  air  conditions  on  appetite, 
muscular  work,  the  blood,  etc.: 

Win- in »v.  (X-l  :mer,  G.  T.     The  effect  upon  the  appetite  of  the 

chenn  limentH  of  th<  '--cupied  rooms.      (Proc.    Hoc.  Exper.  Biol. 

and  .  12,  p.  141-144.) 

I..  The  action  of  temperature  and  humid- 
ity 0n  and  on  the  su.u'ar  ot  i'iie  blood.  (Amer. 
Jour.  Plr  S  >.  3,  May,  1916.) 

Wii  '!!er.  .1.  A.,  ami   N'ohle.  ;»tely 

hiu'ii    a  i  i-io'-pl::  upon    I  lie    formation    of    hemolysins.       (1'roc. 

:x|K-r,  p,;()l.  and  ^ed.,  !  ,5,  p.  93-98.) 

(3)  Special  studies  of  the  efTcK  oi    temperature  a'nd  humidity 
upon  the   liiiiroii-   uiciiihraiu'  of  the   nose   and    throat   to  shc-d   li^ht 
on  the  question  of  su-  lity  to  common  colds  and  health  hazards 
of  laundry  workers: 

Miller.   Jaim-s   A.,  an  ;  GF,    II.     Tl  tn   a  tux  spheric 

•n  the  up:-  \rner.  (Mi'nat.  an<! 

'•erald  i'i.     KM  -  of  the  ••  aHoiM  .-m-'i'Sp ijeric 

conditions   upon   the   upper    •  'act      (I  «pe,   191:1,   v.   1M,   ]>. 

'i;ical,  Khinological, 
and  <»roinsrie:il  S.»<  ieiy  i'«.r  ;  '-earcli.t 

Aiiller,   .laiises  A.,   and    >-<^»!e.    \V.  < '.      'I  he  eil'ect  Of  ex:  .   c.ihi   Q{W 

periinent.-i!  infection  of  the  i  (Jour.  Exper.  Med.,  v.  '24,  No.  8, 

Mil-'er,  Jan.'  .'<--t\\  effects  of  .--tmospherlc  condi- 

tions.    (.\  '.  Med.  Sei.,  v.  1.13,  No.  3,  p-   '111.  ?7.) 

(4)  A  bacteriological  survey  of  the  atmosphere: 

Winslo\v,  <'.-!•:.  A.,  and  Browne,  w.  \\'.     Tli--  microbic  «  oltfei»t  of  indo.'i: 
outdoor  air.     (Monthly  Weather  Ileview,  v.  42,  p.  J 

(5)  Psychological  tests  to  show  capacity  of  the  subjects  for  mental 
work : 

Thorndike.  K.  {..,  M<-(Y>11,  W.  A.,  and  Chapman,  J.  ( '.  \Vntilai  ion  in  relation 
to  mental  work.  1910.  *.">  p.  (Teachers'  C'oile^e,  Columbia  University.  (  -MI- 
triontions  to  Kducatlon,  No.  78.) 

Stecher,  Lorle  Ida.  The  elr'^-t  of  linmidity  on  nervousness  an<l  on  general 
eflieiency.  (Archives  of  Psychology,  No.  38,  T>e<--.,  19KJ.) 

NEW  YORK  (STATE).     DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION. 

Albany,  N.  Y. 

DIVISION?  or  VOCATIONAL  AND  EXTENSION  EDUCATION. — L.  A.  Wil- 
son, director.  This  division  is  engaged  in  making  general  industrial 
surveys  and  in  establishing  summer  courses  for  the  training  of  men 
to  conduct  foremen  training  conferences  in  indu.strial  plants.  It  is 
not,  however,  carrying  on  foremen  training  work  directly. 


56  II.    STATE    AND    MUNICIPAL    AGENCIES. 

NEW  YORK  (STATE).  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR. 

124  East  Twenty-eighth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Henry  D. 
Saver,  industrial  commissioner. 

This  department  is  now  under  the  administration  of  the  industrial 
commissioner,-  an  office  created  by  chapter  50,  Laws,  1921,  abolishing 
the  State  Industrial  Commission,  which  had  administered  the  labor 
laws  since  1915. 7 

BUREAU* OF  INDUSTRIAL  CODE,  124  East  Twenty-eighth  Street,  New 
York  City. — This  bureau  is  concerned  with  rules  for  safety  and  sani- 
tation in  industrial  and  mercantile  establishments  and  is  charged 
with  the  revision  and  enlargement  of  the  New  York  State  Industrial 
Code  (latest  edition,  1920)  which  has  been  compiled  in  the  course  of 
seven  years  in  accordance  with  powers  conferred  on  the  State  Indus- 
trial Board  and  its  successor,  the  State  Industrial  Commission,  and 
has  the  force  and  effect  of  law.  The  bureau  also  conducts  the  indus- 
trial safety  congress  of  New  York  State,  and  the  safety  exhibits  in 
connection  therewith,  which  has  been  held  in  various  cities  (fifth,  at 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  December  6  to  9,  1920;  proceedings  published  in 
1921). 

BUREAU  or  INDUSTRIES  AND  IMMIGRATION,  125  East  Twenty-seventh 
Street,  New  York  City. — Mrs.  Marian  K.  Clark,  chief  investigator. 
Complaints  by  alien  employees  in  New  York  industries  are  investi- 
gated by  this  bureau,  including  wage  claims,  exploitation  by  employ- 
ment agencies,  and  the  like.  It  has  also  made  community  surveys  of 
immigrant  living  and  labor  conditions  in  a  large  number  of  the  towns 
of  the  State  and  studies  of  the  relationship  between  alien  illiteracy 
and  mental  defect  and  industrial  accidents.  In  1917  it  issued  a 
pamphlet  on  "The  English  for  safety  campaign." 

BUREAU  OF  INSPECTION. — The  Division  of  Industrial  Hygiene 
(John  H.  Vogt,  director),  created  in  1913,8  has  prepared  the  follow- 
ing issues  in  the  series  of  Special  Bulletins : 

No.  79.  Anthrax.     1916.     22  p. 

No.  82.  Hoods  for  removing  dust,  fumes,  and  gases.    1917.    23  p. 

No.  83.  Dangers  in  manufacture  of  Paris  green  and  Scheele's  green.  1917. 
17.  p. 

No.  86.  Dangers  in  the  manufacture  and  industrial  uses  of  wood  alcohol. 
1917.  17  p. 

No.  89.  Health  hazards  of  the  cloth-sponging  industry.     1918.     24  p. 

No.  90.  A  simple  and  inexpensive  respirator  for  dust  protection.     1918.     10  p. 

No.  96.  Health  hazards  of  the  chemical  industry.     1919.     69  p. 

No.  101.  Asphyxiation  in  garages  and  other  automobile  accidents.    1920.    23  p. 

No.  102.  Devices  for  sanitary  control  of  material  disengaged  in  industrial 
processes.  1921.  31  p. 

7  The   Now   York    State    Factory    Investigating   Commission,    created  in    1011,   presented 
four  extensive  reports    (11   vols.)    to  the  legislature,  1912-1915,  including,  in  addition  to 
the  testimony  at  public  hearings,   appendices  containing  the  results  of  special   invoiina- 
tions,  e.  g.,  sanitation  for  factories,  fhe  hazard,   working  conditions  in  bakeries  and   the 
chemical,   tobacco,   printing,  and   canning   Industries,    employment   of  women   arid  children 
in    factories    and    mercantile   establishments,    night    work    for    women,    lead    and    arsenic 
poisoning,  wood  alcohol,  dangers  to  workers  in  the  manufacture  and  use   of  commercial 
acids,    wages   in    the    confectionery,,    paper-box,    shirt,    button,    and    millinery    industries, 
minimum-wage  problem,  vocational  training,  cost  of  living. 

8  Prior  to  this  date  special  investigations  in  occupational  diseases  and  industrial  hygiene 
were  made  by  the  Medical  Inspector  of  Factories  and  published  in  the  annual   reports  of 
his  office  (included  in  the  a.nnual  reports  of  the  Department),  as  follows:  1908 — ventila- 
tion of  factories;  1900 — calico  print,  industry,  bakeries  in  Manhattan  borough,  potteries; 
1910 — phosphorus   matches,   pearl   buttons,    results  of  air   analyses   in    certain    factories; 
1911 — felt-hat  industry,  cloak  and  suit  industry  in  New  York  City,  results  of  air  analyses 
in  these  industries,  ventilation  of  a  department  store. 


STATE   AGENCIES.  57 

BUREAU  OF  MEDIATION  AND  ARBITRATION.  —  A  study  of  "  plant  disa- 
bility funds"  (16  p.)  by  Charles  M.  Mills,  industrial  counselor  for 
this  bureau,  was  published  April,  1921,  as  Special  Bulletin  No.  105. 

BUREAU  OF  STATISTICS  AND  INFORMATION,  Capitol,  Albany,  N.  Y.  — 
E.  B.  Patten,  chief  statistician.  This  bureau  has  published,  in  the 
series  of  Special  Bulletins,  various  issues  dealing  with  statistics  of 
unemployment,  trade-unions,  -wages  and  hours,  strikes  and  lockouts, 
and  industrial  accidents;  compilations  of  New  York  labor  laws; 
court  decisions  on  workmen's  compensation,  labor  laws  and  indus- 
trial disputes;  No.  76,  European  regulations  for  prevention  of  occu- 
pational diseases  (77  p.).  and  the  results  of  special  investigations,  as 
follows  : 

No.  77.  Industrial  accident  prevention.     1916.    54  p. 

No.  91.  A  plan  for  shop  safely,  sanitation,  and  health  organization.  1919. 
32  p. 

No.  {;_'.  Weekly  ea  ;  nin^s  of  women  in  five  industries  (paper  boxes,  shirts  and 
(•••Jlitrs.  confectionery,  cigars  and  tobacco,  and  mercantile  establishments). 
1919.  21  p. 

No.  iocs.  Sickness  ainon-  New  York  State  factory  workers  in  1!M!>.  1921. 
1M)  p.  (I'.ased  on  data  collected  and  turned  over  to  the  bureau  by  the  Associated 
Industries  of  New  York  State.) 

It  also  publishes  monthly  The  Labor  Market  Bulletin,  giving  cur- 
rent information  about  the  extent  of  employment  in  factories  and 
building  work,  average  earnings,  and  food  prices,  labor  supply  and 
demand  at  State  employment  offices. 

BTKKAU  OF  WOMKN  IN  IMH  sTKY.  124  East  Twenty-eight  h  Street, 
New  York  City.  —  Miss  Nolle  Swart/,  chief.  Results  of  special  inves- 
tigations relating  to  women  in  industry  made  by  this  bureau  have 
been  published  in  the  following  Special  Bulletins: 

Xo.  S>3.  The  industrial  rep!.-.  r  men  l.y  women.     1919.     69  p. 

No.  loo.  The  telephone  industrv.  l«»'JO.  S,'.~  p.  (An  investigation  of  the  con- 
ditions of  employment  for  women  in  (lie  telephone  exrhai.ues  throughout  the 
State,  with  especial  reference  to  waues.  hours,  sanitation,  and  labor  turnover 
and  its  causes,  made  at  the  request  <>!'  the  governor.) 

No.   104.   Industrial  posture  and   sealing.      l!)Jh     50  p. 


Unpublished  reports  which  have  been  completed  deal  with:  (1) 
The  paper-box  industry  in  New  York  State;  (2)  the  candy  industry; 
the  employment  of  women  in  canneries;  (4)  employment  of 
women  at  grinding  and  polishing;  (5)  employment  of  women  in 
portation;  and  (6)  work  accidents  among  women.  Of  these, 
(3),  (4).  and  (5)  were  prepared  to  assist  the  Industrial  Commission 
in  framing  rules  and  regulations  covering  employment  in  the  occu- 
pations to.  which  they  relate;  some  of  the  results'  of  (6)  were  pub- 
lished in  The  Bulletin,  issued  by  the  industrial  commission  (v.  6,  No. 
3,  December.  1920,  p.  56-57.)  An  investigation  of  wages,  hours,  and 
length  of  service  of  women  employed  in  five-and-ten-cent  stores  is  in 
progress. 

NORTH  DAKOTA.     WORKMEN'S  COMPENSATION   BUREAU. 
Bismarck,  N.  Dak. 

MINIMUM  WAGE  DEPARTMENT.  —  Hazel  Farkasch,  secretary.  Or- 
ganized in  1919  to  take  charge  of  the  administration  of  the  minimum 
wage  law  enacted  in  that  }7ear,  this  department  has  made1  investiga- 
tions of  the  hours  of  labor,  working  conditions  and  wages  of  women 


58  II.    STATK    AXD   MUNICIPAL   AGENCIES. 

in  hotels  and  restaurants,  retail  stores,  laundries,  telephone  exchanges, 
and  factories  in  the  State.  A  summary  of  the  results  of  these  inves- 
tigations :».nd  the  recommendations  of  the  conferences,  including 
rates  of  pay,  terms  of  apprenticeship,  work  time,  etc.,  are  given  in  its 
first  annual  report  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1920  (48  p.). 

OHIO.     STATE   DEPARTMENT   OF   HEALTH. 

Columbus,  Ohio. 

DIVISION  OF  INDUSTRIAL  HYGIENE. — Dr.  Emery  R.  Hayhurst.  Ohio 
State  University,  consultant.  Organized  in  1915  following  the  sur- 
vey of  occupational  diseases  made  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  in 
pursuance  of  a  joint  resolution  adopted  by  the  State  legislature  in 
February,  1913  (Laws,  1913,  v.  103,  p.  975),  and  the  results  of  which 
were  published  in  a  report  entitled: 

A  survey  of  industrial  health  hazards  and  occupational  diseases  in  Ohio,  by 
E.  li.  Hayhurst.  1915.  438  p. 

Most  of  the  research  work  of  the  division  has  consisted  of  investi- 
gations in  industrial  plants  similar  to  those  made  in  the  original 
survey.  One  of  the  principal  studies  undertaken  concerned  the 
healthfulness  of  the  coal-mining  industry  of  the  State,  the  results 
of  which  are  published  in  the  following  articles: 

Hayhurst,  E.  R.  Health  of  Ohio  coal  miners.  (Ohio  Public  Health  .Tour., 
y.  10/Nos.  2-5,  Feb.-May,  1919.) 

—     The   health   hazards   and   mortality    statistics   of   soft-coal    mining   in 
Illinois  and  Ohio.     (Jour.  Indust,  Hyg.,  v.  1,  No.  7,  Nov.,  1919,  p.  360-367.) 

Starr,  E.  B.  Excessive  mortality  from  Influenza-pneumonia  amon^  bituminous 
coal  miners  of  Ohio  in  1918.  (Amer.  Jour.  Pub.  Health,  v.  i<>,  No.  4,  Apr.,  1920, 
p.  348-351.) 

In  1918  a  survey  of  the  munitions  industry  was  begun  and  labora- 
tory studies  of  the  infections  from  oil-cutting  compounds  and  lubri- 
cants were  made  and  published  as  follows : 

Albaugh,  R.  P.  Cause  and  prevention  of  furunoulosis  and  wound  infections 
among  machinists.  (Ohio  Pub.  Health  Jour.,  v.  9,  No.  4-,  Apr.,  1918,  p.  145-152.) 

A  number  of  different  trade  processes  involving  dangers  to  health 
have  been  investigated  from  time  to  time ;  clinical  studies  of  occupa- 
tional diseases  have  usually  been  concerned  with  individual  <• 
in  wrhich  disease  or  death  was  alleged  to  be  due  to  occupational  causes. 
The  following  is  a  partial  list  of  miscellaneous  contributions  since 
1915: 

Hayhurst,  E.  R.  The  prevalence  of  occupational  factors  in  disease  and  sug- 
gestions for  their  elimination.  (Amer.  Jour.  Pub.  Health,  v.  5,  No.  G,  June, 
1915,  p.  538-550.) 

The  classification  of  hazardous  occupations.     (Amor.  Jour.  Pub.  Health, 

v.  6,  No.  5,  May,  1916,  p.  460-469. ) 

Albaugh,  R.  P.  The  dangers  connected  with  the  spray  method  of  finishing  jmtl 
decorating.  (Jour.  Amer.  Met  I.  Axsoc.,  July  14,  1917,  v.  69,  p.  142;  Ohio  Pub. 
Health  Jour.,  v.  6,  No.  5,  Nov..  1915,  p.  512-514.) 

Gasoline  engine  exhaust  gas  poisoning.      (Amer.   Jour.   Pub.   Health, 
V.  7,  No.  8,  Aug.,  1917,  p.  664-666.) 

Starr,  E.  B.  Lead  poisoning  as  a  factor  in 'chronic  disability.  (Ohio  Pub. 
Health  Jour.,  v.  10,  No.  10,  Oct.,  1919,  p.  384-386.) 

Close  cooperation  exists  between  this  division  and  the  Department 
of  Public  Health  and  Sanitation  of  Ohio  State  University.  (See 
p.  189.) 


STATE   AGENCIES.  59 

OHIO.     INDUSTRIAL  COMMISSION. 

Columbus,  Ohio. 

Established  in  1913,  \vhen  sev;  I  departments  were  merged 

and  placed   under  it,  namely,  ti  .  rtments  of  commissioner  of 

labor  statistics,  chief  inspector  of  mines,  chief  inspector  of  work- 
shops and   factories,  chief  ex.-r;,  '  steam  eng:  d  of 
r  rules.  State  board  of  art                 and  conciliation,  and  State 
liability  board  of  awards.    Since  1915  its  annual  report  1.  pub- 
I  in  u  Ohio                                               d  by  th<                «ry  of  State. 
Drip.MJTMKXT  OF  INVKSI                                                                .        ;. lies, 
chief  statistician.    This  department  has  prepared  and  is-               cries 

Minhered  as  Bulletins  of  the 

Industrial  ('ommi-?.i«j?j.  •  titties  of  wages  and 

employment,  a«  ;  :  ion,  mines  and  quar- 

011  ii :•'.-•  'd  factories  and 

the  free  labor  (  ;ides  the 

folio  -vial  inv.  nt : 

No.  II.  Cost  or  ii\  g  women  in  Ohio.     1915.     255  p. 

1914.     1915.     29  p. 

iN.  Jo!.  sHMi  .  .Ohio.    191G.    38  p.     (Bulle- 

._•  •  iii'lust rial  arc-idonts  in  Ohio.    1917.    12  p.    (Bulle- 
tin. 

camps  i«  Oi  .  u.     (Bulletin, 

v.  4,  No.  11.) 

During  •''  1916-17  this  department  made  an  .nto  tlio, 

industrial  futures  of  i>(;,(J  workmen  awarded  <  .lion  for  perma- 

'partial  injury  during  the  period  January  1,  1914,  to  June  30, 

lire  their  handi- 
.i>s  to  rate  of  wages, 

•  »f  time.  ch;i  aiployer  and  cause  of  unemployment 

nnd  not  at  ;<>rt  of  tisis  study  has  not  yet  been 

publish' 

OREGON.     INDUSTRIAL  WELFARE  COMMISSION. 

Portland,  O-  L.  Brt-  .uin. 

Tin  d  i-'l-i  (•  iiinimuni  wages  and 

•  •'  women  and  minors  published  in  1914 

-)f  an  invesi  in  Portland  (T>'2  p.). 

Its  latest  biennial  report  for  1910-20  contains  (p.  1)>-19)  a  summary 

of  sr  Apprenticeship  period  in 

mercantile,  facto  laundry  industries. 

PENNSYLVANIA.  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR  AND  INDUSTRY. 

Harrisburg.  Pa.    CliiTord  P>.  (/onnolley,  commissioner. 
Created  by  act  of  the  legislature  approved  June  2,  1913  (P.  L.  396), 
the  department  organization  now  includes:  Industrial  P>oard,  Work- 
men's   Compensation    Hoard?    Bureau    of    Inspection,    Division    of 

iene  and   Engineering,  T'un'au   of  Mediation   and   Arbitration,. 

•au  of  Employment,  liureau  of  Workmen's  Compensation,  and 

•an  oi'  rvehal)ilitation,     The  recent  report:,  of  these  boards  and 
bureaus  have  been  published  as  Bulletins  of  the  department. 


60  II.    STATE   AND    MUNICIPAL   AGENCIES. 

The  department  held  four  annual  welfare  and  efficiency  confer- 
ences up  to  November,  1916  (proceedings  of  the  fourth  in  Monthly 
Bulletin,  v.  4,  Nos.  2-3,  February-March,  1917).  These  were  dis- 
continued during  the  war  and  resumed  as  the  annual  safety  congress 
in  March,  1920  (proceedings  issued  as  Bulletin,  v.  7.  No.  4). 

In  February,  1920,  a  conference  of  superintendents  and  employ- 
ment managers  was  held  at  Harrisburg  to  discuss  employment  prob- 
lems, and  an  "  Employment  Advisory  Group  "  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Department  of  Labor  and  Industry  was  organized.  A  digest  of  the 
proceedings  forms  Bulletin,  volume  7  (series  of  1920),  No.  3. 

An  Industrial  Eelations  Conference  is  to  be  held  at  Harrisburg, 
October  24^-27,  1921.  The  subjects  for  the  different  sessions  are: 
Industrial  waste,  Women  and  children  in  industry,  Industrial  co- 
operation, Industrial  education,  Present  industrial  situation,  In- 
dustrial publicity,  and  Medical  supervision  in  industry. 

INDUSTRIAL  BOARD. — Fred  J.  Hartman,  secretary.  This  board  con- 
sists of  the  commissioner,  who  is  chairman,  and  four  additional  mem- 
bers appointed  by  the  governor,  viz :  An  employer  of  labor,  a  wage 
earner,  a  woman,  and  a  representative  of  the  public,  for  a  term  of 
four  years,  retiring  in  rotation.  Its  functions  are  (1)  to  investigate 
matters  relating  to  employment  and  effect  of  labor  laws;  (2)  to  make 
rules  and  regulations  under  the  various  labor  laws,  e.  g.,  safety 
standards,  dangerous  or  injurious  occupations  in  which  minors  may 
not  be  employed,  modifications  of  provisions  of  the  act  relating  to 
employment  of  women. 

The  work  is  organized  in  four  divisions,  one  being  assigned  to 
each  associate  member,  viz: 

(1)  Women  and  children  in  industry — the  rulings  of  the  board 
'pertaining  to  these  workers  have  been  published  in  two  pamphlets. 

(2)  Industrial  relations — the  activities  under  this  division  include 
the  establishment  of  the  Bureau  of  Employment,  investigation  of 
various  strikes,  campaigns  in  behalf  of  organizing  for  safety  and 
Americanization ;  in  the  fall  of  1920  studies  of  immigrant  prob- 
lems, preparatory  to  an  investigation  of  labor  camps,  and  of  systems 
of  apprenticeship  in  various  States  were  begun. 

(3)  Industrial   surveys,   industrial   education,   publications,   etc. 
Under  this  division  are  the  surveys  of  working  conditions,  health 
hazards,  etc.,  made  by  the  Division  of  Hygiene  and  Engineering  and 
cooperative  surveys,  such  as  the  study  of  fire  prevention  in  indus- 
trial plants  provided  for  by  Bryn  Mawr  College  alumnse  in  1916 

(in  second  annual  report,  1915-16,  p.  29-74),  and  the  survey  of 
industrial  home  work  in  Pennsylvania,  made  with  the  Consumers' 
League  of  Eastern  Pennsylvania  (see  p.  97)  and  the  Carola  Woeris- 
hoffer  Department  at  Bryn  Mawr  College  (see  p.  166)  in  1917-18. 
A  supplementary  survey  was  made  in  October,  1920,  to  check  up  the 
latter  for  publication. 

(4)  Safety  standards  and  safety  appliances.    The  safety  standards 
committee  initiates  the  formulation  of  safety  standards  by  repre- 
sentative committees,  submits  tentative  drafts  for  public  hearings, 
and  prepares  final  drafts  for  adoption  by  the  board;  the  approvals 
committee,  consisting  of  a  member  of  the  board,  the  chief  of  the 
Bureau  of  Inspection,  the  chief  of  the  Division  of  Hygiene  and 
Engineering,  and  the  secretary  of  the  board  is  concerned  with  offi- 
cial approval  of  satisfactory  safety  devices.     . 


STATE   AGENCIES.  61 

The  following  completed  "  Safety  standards  of  the  Industrial 
Board  "  have  been  published  and  a  revision  of  them  is  in  progress : 

Power  transmission;  railings,  toe-boards,  platforms,  and  runways  (rev.  ed.)  ; 
stationary  engines  (rev.  ed.)  ;  machine  tools  (rev.  ed. )  ;  forging  and  stamp- 
ing; polishing  and  grinding;  compressed  air;  woodworking  machinery;  bakeries 
(rev.  ed.)  ;  rire  prevention;  canneries  (rev.  ed)  ;  boilers;  foundries;  ladders; 
cereal  mills;  lighting:  elevators;  explosives;  cranes  ;  electric  code;  lead  corrod- 
ing and  oxidizing;  paint  grinding:  dry  colors;  nitro  and  amido  compounds; 
brewing  and  bottling:  motion-picture  machine  operation:  scaffolding;  plant  rail- 
ways; shop  clothing  for  women;  printing  and  allied  industries. 

New  standards  recently  completed  and  not  yet  published  include 
industrial  sanitation,  industrial  ladders,  and  head  and  eye  pro- 
tection. Data  are  being  gathered  on  quarries,  the  galvanizing  indus- 
try, tunnels,  and  mines,  other  than  coal  mines. 

A  report  of  the  activities  of  the  Industrial  Board  to  December  31, 
1919,  have  been  issued  as  Bulletin  (series  of  1920),  volume  7,  No.  6; 
"  What  Pennsylvania  is  doing  for  safety  and  safety  work,"  as  volume 
7.  No.  7.  A  monthly  Bulletin  of  Information  is  issued  by  the  board 
giving  its  current  activities. 

DIVISION  OF  HYGIENE  AND  ENGINEERING. — Dr.  Francis  D.  Patterson, 
chief.  This  division  consists  of  the  chief  medical  inspector  and  engi- 
neering experts  in  the  Bureau  of  Inspection,  under  the  immediate 
charge  of  the  commissioner.  It  makes  special  inspection  of  factories 
and  mercantile  establishments  and  conducts  special  investigations 
relative  to  industrial  processes  and  conditions,  e.  g. : 

Physical  standards  and  (pi.-ililicat ions  applied  to  children  requesting  employ- 
ment certificates,  1915.  (Based  on  physical  examination  of  children  between 
14  and  1<>  applying  for  such  <  ertificat<is  in  Philadelphia.  June-August,  1914.) 

Reports  on  the  physical  condition  of  :i  gr..np  of  textile  mill  operatives  in 
Pennsylvania  and  of  individuals  livhm  under  th«»  same  conditions  as  textile 
mill  operatives  but  no.  in  that  work.  (In  aim.  rep.,  1915,  pt.  2,  p. 

116-241.) 

Report  on  the  methods  employed  in  the  white  lead  and  lead  oxide  industries 
in  Pennsylvania  to  safe-nard  the  health  of  the  workmen.  (Bulletin,  v.  2,  No. 
11,  Nov..  10ir>.) 

Investigation  of  health  of  400  tobacco  workers.  (Bulletin,  v.  4,  No.  6,  June, 
1917). 

This  division  has  held  a  number  of  conferences  of  industrial  physi- 
cians and  surgeons.  The  first  four  formed  part  of  the  annual  welfare 
and  efficiency  conferences  of  the  department;  the  fifth  to  ninth  in- 
clusive were  held  separately  and  the  proceedings  were  printed  in  the 
Pennsylvania  Medical  Journal  (March,  19 18- January,  1920)  and 
issued  as  separates;  the  tenth  constituted  a  section  of  the  annual 
safety  congress  of  1920. 

BUREAU  OF  REHABILITATION. — S.  S.  Riddle,  chief.  Established  by 
act  of  the  legislature  approved  July  18,  1919,  for  the  rendering  of 
physically  handicapped  persons  fit  to  engage  in  a  remunerative  occu- 
pation. By  section  5  (k)  the  chief  is  empowered — 

To  conduct  investigations  and  surveys  of  the  several  industries  located  in  the 
Commonwealth  to  ascertain  the  occupations  within  each  industry  in  which 
physically  handicapped  persons  can  enter  upon  remunerative  employment  under 
favorable  conditions,  and  work  with  normal  effectiveness,  and  to  determine  what 
practicable  changes  and  adjustments  in  industrial  operations  and  practices 
may  facilitate  such  employment. 

The  report  of  activities  to  January  1,  1921,  published  as  the  depart- 
ment's Bulletin,  volume  8  (series  of  1921).  No.  2,  does  not  show  any 
surveys  of  the  kind  contemplated  in  this  provision.  But  prior  to 


62  II.    STATE   AND   MUNICIPAL   AGENt'IKS. 

the  establishment  of  this  bureau  the  Department  of  Labor  and  Indus- 
try, in  January.  1918,  sent  out  a  questionnaire  to  Pennsylvania  em- 
ployers to  ascertain  opportunities  in  their  establishments  for  employ- 
ment of  persons  handicapped  by  various  types  of  disability  and  to 
obtain  data  on  crippled  workers  actually  employed.  The  returns, 
showing  more  than  50.000  employment  opportunities,  were  analyzed 
and  tabulated  by  the  Bureau  of  Employment  and  the  results  pub- 
lished as  Bulletin,  volume  5  (series  of  1918),  No.  2. 

TEXAS.     BUREAU  OF  LABOR  STATISTICS. 

Austin,  Tex. 

YvV.\rvx"s  Divisrox.  —  Mrs.  Lena  Gardner,  chief.  In  1920  this 
division  made  a  survey  of  woman  workers  in  Fort  Worth.  Tex.,  and 
issued  a  mimeographed  report  containing*  the  results  (summarized 
in  Monthly  Labor  Review  of  the  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics, 
January.  1921,  p.  157-158).  A  child  labor  survey  in  Austin 
Corpus  Christi  and  an  industrial  survey  of  El  Paso  are  in  progress. 

WASHINGTON.    DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR  AND  INDUSTRIES. 

Olympia,  Wash. 

Created  by  act  of  February  9,  1921.  which  reorganized  the  adminis- 
trative departments  of  the  State  and  brought  together  under  a  single 
director  various  offices,  boards,  and  commissions  dealing  with  labor. 
It  comprises  three  divisions,  (1)  industrial  insurance,  (2)  safety, 
(3)  industrial  relations. 

INDUSTRIAL  WELFARE  COMMITTEE.  —  This  committee,  consisting  of 
the  director  of  labor  and  industries,  the  supervisor  of  industrial 
insurance,  the  supervisor  of  industrial  relations,  and  the  supervisor 
of  women  in  industry,  exercises  the  powers  and  performs  the  duties 
formerly  devolving  upon  the  Industrial  Welfare  Commission. 

Created  by  act  of  March  24,  1913,  and  authorized  to  fix  minimum 
wages  and  standard  conditions  of  labor  for  women  and  minors,  this 
commission  made  a  preliminary  investigation  and  published  a  "  Ee- 
port  on  the  wages,  Conditions  of  work,  and  cost  and  standards  of 
living  of  women  wage  earners  in  Washington"  (111  p.)  in  March, 
1914  (reprinted  as  Appendix  A  in  first  biennial  report,  1913-1914). 
Its  first  and  second  biennial  reports  contain  other  data  on  cost  of 
living,  summaries  of  occupational  surveys  and  of  the  proceedings 
of  wage  conferences,  a  survey  made  to  ascertain  the  effects  of  mini- 
mum wage,  fruit  cannery  investigations,  etc. 

WISCONSIN.    INDUSTRIAL  COMMMISSION. 

State  Capitol,  Madison,  Wis.  Fred  M.  Wilcox,  chairman. 
This  commission,  created  in  1911,  is  organized  in  seven  depart- 
ments, viz  :  Safety  and  sanitation,  Workmen's  compensation,  Woman 
and  child  labor.*  Employment  offices,  Mediation  and  arbitration, 
Apprenticeship.  Statistics.  It  undertakes  investigations  only  for 
the  purpose  of  obtaining  data  on  which  to  base  rules  and  regula- 
tions or  for  other  administrative  purposes,9  e.  g.,  during  191.4-15, 

0  In  1915  the  commission,  to  obtain  data  upon  which  the  hours  of  employment  for 
women  might  he  fixed  under  the  State  ]nw  providing  that  such  working  hours  "  shull  not 
be  prejudicial  to  their  health,  safety,  or  welfare."  requested  the  cooperation  of  the  T.  S. 
Public  Health  Service,  which  detailed  Dr.  Robert  Oleson  t*o  direct  a  survey  of  the  v. 
employing-  industries  of  the  State.  The  investigation  was  carried  on  from  November, 
"tin."),  to  Of-roiM-:.  1910,  and  included  special  intensive  studies  of  fatigue  and  hourly 


production  in  its  relation  to  the  length  of  the  work-day  and  to  shop  equipment.  Brief 
reports  were  published  in  the  annual  reports  of  the  U.  S.  Piiblic  Health  Service  for 
1916  (p.  44-46)  arid  19-17  (p.  36-37). 


STATE   AGENCIES.  63 

sanitation  and  safety  for  women  and  children  in  paper  mills,  health 
hazards  in  the  rubber  industry.  As  a  rule,  the  results  of  these 
investigations  are  not  published. 

SAFETY  AND  SALTATION  DEPARTMENT.  —  Shortly  after  its  estab- 
lishment the  commission  organized  a  committee  on  safety  and  sani- 
tation to  formulate  for  it  a  series  of  general  orders  on  safety  and 
san  i  I  r  approval  were  promulgated  as  Bulletins  of  the 

Industrial  Commission  (v.  1.  2,  1912-13).  'The  series  of  bulletins 
includes  shop  bulletins  on  accident  prevention,  designed  for  the  use 
of  superintendents  and  foremen;  also  "Results  of  investigations  on 
permanent  partial  disabilities  "  (v.  2,  No.  6)  .  In  1915  the  commission 
published  "General  orders  on  zinc  mines,"  drafted  with  the  assist- 
ance of  a  committee  of  mining  engineers  appointed  at  a  conference 
of  the  xinc  mining  companies.  This  is  now  in  process  of  revision. 

Thi  t  lias  prepared  and  published  three  safety  codes,  of 

ii  the  latest  editions  are  as  follows: 


of  boiler  re  '.    •">-'  p. 

:ior  c(Mit>.    IDL'U.    'J2  p. 
Industrial    liirlitM-.  le«s   mills,   offices.   .m-l   oHier   work  ]>I«IIMV. 

3(1    (Ml. 

WOMEN'S  DEPARTMENT  KM  Manufacturers'  Home  Bnilding,  Mil- 

s'.    This  Milwaukee  office  of  the 
Woman    and    Child    Lal-or    Depart.  as    organized    in    April, 


a  study  of  metal  trade.-  establishments  in  Milwaukee  to  ascertain 
the  new  operation  women  rforming  and  the  proc- 

esses which  they  might  perform.     In  UU's  it  conducted  an  investiga- 
tion on  the  employment   of   \vome:i  on  street-car  lines  and  m;.-. 
study  of  the  proper  length  of  the  meal  period  for  women  emplo 

During  the  past  few  months  it  has  been  making  surveys  in  several 
-•nsiu  cities  to  furnish  data  on  eo-t  of  living  of  working  women 
for  the  use  of  the  ad\  isory  board  in  connection  with  minimum- wage 
determinations,  but  this  material  has  not  been  published.  A  study 
of  the  employment  of  women  and  girls  on  power  sewing  machines  is 
in  p.  and  an  investigation  on  the  question  of  prohibiting 

worn-.  i    working  at  buffing   and   polishing  machines   arid   at 

plating  is  to  be  undertaken  shortly. 

EMCLOYVKXT  OFFICES  DEPARTMENT. — In  January,  1918,  the  com- 
mission undertook  a  survey  of  the  large  manufacturing  industries 
of  the  Stall'  to  determine  what  trades  or  processes  were  open  to  men 
certain  permanent  handicaps,  and  in  the  following  August  a 
division  for  handicapped  persons  was  organized  within  the  employ- 
ment service  as  part  of  the  Milwaukee  public  employment  office.  An 
analysis  of  placements  of  the  first  five  months  is  given  in  "Indus- 
trial experience  of  handicapped  workmen  in  Wisconsin,''  by  George 
P.  Hambrecht.  (Amer.  Labor  Legisl.  Rev.,  v.  9,  No.  1,  Mar.,  1919, 
p.  117-125.) 

API-KEN  TTfEsiiip  DEPARTMENT. — W.  J.  Simon,  supervisor  of  ap- 
prenticeship. This  department  is  charged  with  the  enforcement  of 
the  apprenticeship  law  (Statutes,  sec.  2377),  which  regulates  the  con- 
tent of  indentures  and  the  instruction  to  be  provided. 


64  II.    STATE   AND    MUNICIPAL   AGENCIES. 

In  1915  a  State  committee  representing  the  interests  of  the  em- 
ployers, the  employees,  and  the  continuation  schools,  was  called  to- 
gether in  Milwaukee  by  the  Industrial  Commission.  From  this  com- 
mittee was  created  a  State  Apprenticeship  Board  to  consider  some  of 
the  important  details  of  administration  and  to  advise  the  super- 
visor of  apprenticeship.  Upon  its  advice  a  standard  form  of  appren- 
ticeship indenture  was  prepared.  The  details  of  the  processes  to  be 
iu nght  and  the  length  of  time  to  be  devoted  to  each  have  been  worked 
out  by  other  advisory  committees  composed  of  practical  men  actually 
engaged  in  that  particular  trade,  employers  and  employees  being 
represented  equally. 

To  date  the  following  trades  have  been  classified  and  advisory  com- 
mittees organized  to  standardize  the  terms  of  apprenticeship  inden- 
tures: All  the  metal  trades,  bakers,  bricklayers,  engravers,  plasterers, 
printers,  painters  and  decorators,  tailors,  electricians,  carpenters, 
and  plumbers.  Definite  schedules  have  been  determined  for  the 
following  trades:  Blacksmith,  draftsman,  electrician,  baker,  shoe- 
maker, custom  tailor,  milliner,  jeweler,  watchmaker,  printer,  com- 
positor, lithographing  transferer,  sheet  metal  worker,  auto  mechanic, 
boiler  maker,  wire  weaver,  ship,  fitter,  photo-engraver,  commercial 
artist,  tinsmith,  wood  engraver,  photographer,  stone  metal  artist, 
knitting  machine  adjuster,  dressmaker,  templet  maker,  copper  etcher, 
paper  ruler,  painter,  meat  cutter,  and  artificial-limb  maker.  These 
are  printed  in  "Apprenticeship  in  Wisconsin— third  report,  1919." 

The  department  cooperates  with  the  State  Board  of  Vocational 
Education  in  planning  courses  of  study  for  apprentices  and  issues 
pamphlets  describing  the  subject  matter  of  various  trades  with  which 
an  apprentice  should  be  familiar  (e.  g.  Standard  requirements  for 
bricklayers,  1918;  Apprenticeship  for  plumbing  in  Wisconsin,  1919) 
and  a  periodical  entitled  "  The  Wisconsin  Apprentice "  (v.  1-4, 
1918-21). 

MUNICIPAL  AGENCIES. 

CINCINNATI  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS— Vocation  Bureau. 

Denton   Building,   Cincinnati,   Ohio.     Dr.   Helen   T.  Woolley, 
,  director. 

The  Psychological  Laboratory  of  this  Vocation  Bureau  has  estab- 
lished norms  of  mental  and  physical  measurements  which  are  ap- 
plicable to  industrial  workers  between  the  ages  of  14  and  18  years. 
A  brief  account  of  the  first  two  years  of  the  tests  and  a  statement  as 
to  what  tests  were  included,  is  given  in  an  article  entitled  "A  new 
scale  of  mental  and  physical  measurements  for  adolescents,  and  some 
of  its  uses,"  by  Helen  T.  Woolley  in  Journal  of  Educational  Psy- 
chology (November,  1915).  The  later  results  are  not  yet  ready  for 
publication. 

STATE-CITY  FREE  EMPLOYMENT  SERVICE. 

City  Hall,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

WOMEN'S  DIVISION. — Miss  Margaretta  Williamson,  director.  This 
division  is  the  successor  of  the  Cooperative  Employment  Bureau  for 
Girls  which  published  in  1915  the  volume  entitled  "  Commercial 
work  and  training  for  girls,"  by  Jeannette  Eaton  and  Bertha  M. 
Stevens. 


MUNICIPAL   AGENCIES.  65 

Since  that  time  it  has  made  a  number  of  studies  of  vocational 
opportunities  for  women  in  Cleveland,  viz :  Report  on  women  em- 
ployed in  iron  and  steel  industries  in  Cleveland,  by  Elizabeth  Arnold 
(published  in  Appendix  A  of  "A  report  on  the  problem  of  the  sub- 
stitution of  woman  for  man  power  in  industry  "  issued  by  the  Cleve- 
land Chamber  of  Commerce  in  1918)  ;  Opportunities  for  women  in 
the  printing  trades  (December,  1917)  ;  and  Negro  women  in  indus- 
try (June,  1918),  unpublished  studies  by  Elizabeth  Arnold;  "Op- 
portunities in  Cleveland  for  women  trained  in  domestic  science  and 
home  economics "  by  Margaret  Church,  and  "  Opportunities  for 
trained  women  in  Cleveland  factories,"  studies  made  for  the  Bureau 
of  Occupations  for  Trained  Women  (108  City  Hall,  Cleveland)  ; 
articles  on  opportunities  for  women  by  Elizabeth  Arnold,  published 
in  newspapers  September,  1920,  and  January,  1921. 

DBS  MOINES  (IOWA).     INDEPENDENT  SCHOOL  DISTRICT— Board  of 
Directors. 

Garfield  School,  Des  Moines,  Iowa.     Raymond  Franzen,  direc- 
tor of  research. 

An  investigation  is  in  progress  in  the  high  schools  to  determine 
which  of  the  various  group  intelligence  tests  will  give  the  best  pre- 
diction of  success  in  academic  studies  and  also  to  discover  some  tests 
among  them  with  prognostic  value  in  vocational  pursuits. 

NEW  YORK  (CITY).  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 

Jh'HKAt-  OF  REFERENCE*  KKSI..\K<  H.  AND  STATISTICS. — 500  Park  Ave- 
nue, New  York,  X.  V.  E.  A.  Xii'enecker,  director.  Investigations  of 
intelligence  tests  are  being  made  by  Mr.  John  L.  Stenquist  of  this 
bureau.  One  such  investigation  was  made  during  1920,  in  which 
the  comparative  results  obtained  in  using  five  or  six  well-known 
intelligence  tests  were  shown.  Studies  of  tests  of  mechanical  ability 
and  some  tests  of  educational  achievement  are  in  progress. 

NEW  YORK  (CITY).     DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH. 
New.  York,  N.  Y. 

DIVISION  OF  INDUSTRIAL  HYGIENE. — S.  Dana  Hubbard,  M.  D.,  su- 
perintendent. Established  in  1915  under  the  Bureau  of  Preventable 
Diseases;  reorganized  in  1918  and  transferred  to  the  Bureau  of  Pub- 
lic Health  Education. 

In  addition  to  carrying  on  the  inspection  of  industrial  establish- 
ments and  enforcement  of  the  sanitary  code  and  its  educational  pro- 
gram by  means  of  lectures  and  group  talks  on  industrial  hygiene, 
distribution  of  posters  on  sanitation,  hazards,  etc.,  the  division  has 
made  several  industrial  hygiene  surveys,  the  results  of  which  have 
been  published  as  follows: 

A  clinical  and  sanitary  study  of  the  fur  and  hatters'  fur  trade,  by  L.  I. 
Harris.  1915.  55  p.  (Monograph  series,  No.  12;  also  in  Monthly  Bulletin,  v. 
r>,  NO.  10,  p.  -jdT-L'Ds,  Oct.,  iDir,.) 

The  health  of  food  handlers;  a  cooperative  study  by  the  Department  of 
Health,  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Co.,  and  American  Museum  of  Safety.  By 
L.  I.  Harris  and  L.  I.  Dublin.  1917.  '24  p.  (Monograph  series.  No.  17.) 

Cost  of  clean  clothes  in  terms  of  health;  a  study  of  laundries  and  laundry 
workers  in  Ne\v  York  City.  By  L.  I.  Harris  and  Nellie  Swarvz.  1916.  96  p. 
(Investigation  made  jointly  by  the  division  and  the  Consumers'  League  of  the 
City  of  New  York.) 

7072:}°— Bull.  290—21 5 


66  II.    STATE    AND   MUNICIPAL   AGENCIES. 

Clinical  study  of  the  frequency  of  lead,  turpentine,  and  benzine  poisoning  in 
400  painters,  by  L.  I.  Harris.  ( Re[.mit  X«>.  71.  AimM  11)1. S,) 

Health  of  workers  in  garages;  a  preliminary  study,  by  L.  I.  Harris.  (Monthly 
Bulletin,  v.  8,  No.  11,  Nov.,  191*. ) 

Conditions  all'ectiiitf  health  in  the  millinery  industry,  by  S.  D.  Hubbard  and 
Christine  R.  Kefauvt-r.  10:20.  ->0  j>.  (Monograph  series.  No.  22;  also  eon- 
doused  in  Monthly  bulletin,  v.  10,  No.  4,  p.  81-97,  Apr.,  1920.) 

investigation  of  .'54  c;iscs  of  bnman  anthrax  occurring  in  New  York  (Mly 
during  1919  and  1920.  by  S.  D.  Hubbard  and  W.  Jacobsohn.  (Monthly  Bulle- 
tin, v.  10.  No.  11,  p.  249-266,  Nov.,  1920;  see  also  Jour.  Ainer.  Med.  Assoc., 
Dec.  18,  1920,  v.  75,  No.  25,  p.  1687.) 

A  paper  on  "Mercurial  poisoning  in  the  manufacture  of  clinical 
thermometers,"  by  W.  Jacobsohn,  was  published  in  the  Journal  of 
Industrial  Hygiene,  September,  1920  (v.  2,  No.  5,  p.  193-196). 

The  research  work  in  progress  is  concerned  with  poisoning  in  the 
dye  and  other  chemical  industries  and  by  illuminating  gas  and  car- 
bon monoxide,  and  with  the  detection  of  lead  fumes  in  printing  and 
linotype  establishments. 

An  effort  of  the  division  to  associate  labor  unions  with  it  for  im- 
proving general  health  conditions  in  the  factories  of  the  city  by 
means  of  the  Labor  Sanitation  Conference  is  described  in  the 
Monthly  Bulletin  of  the  department  for  June,  1917. 

Physical  examinations  of  industrial  workers,  which  are  voluntary 
and  strictly  confidential,  are  performed  by  the  staff  of  industrial 
medical  inspectors. 

In  addition  to  the  above  publications,  Nos.  62,  75,  83,  86,  and  91 
of  the  reprint  series  of  the  department  (consisting  of  papers  by 
members  of  the  staff  reprinted  from  various  journals)  deal  with 
industrial  hygiene  subjects;  also  Keep-well  leaflet,  No.  19 — First  aid 
to  the  industrial  worker  (43  p.). 

OAKLAND  (CALIF.)  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

BUREAU  OF  RESEARCH  AND  GUIDANCE,  Room  1106,  City  Hall,  Oak- 
land, Calif. — Virgil  E.  Dickinson,  director.  This  bureau  includes  de- 
partments of  research,  vocational  guidance,  placement,  industrial 
welfare,  and  mental  testing.  It  is  engaged  in  a  constant  study  of  all 
of  the  factors  pertaining  to  individuals  in  the  public  schools  who  need 
either  adjustment  in  school,  placement  in  industry,  or  vocational 
guidance.  A  vocational  counselor  is  provided  in  every  elemental  v 
school  of  any  considerable  size  and  in  every  high  school.  A  pro- 
gram of  work  is  outlined  in  a  mimeographed  "Bulletin  for  vocational 
counselors,"  issued  April,  1921.  The  reports  of  the  bureau  are  pub- 
lished in  .the  superintendent's  annual  reports  and  also  issued  as  re- 
prints. 


III.  NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 


(a)  ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  RESEARCH 
BUREAUS,  AND  INSTITUTIONS. 

AMALGAMATED  CLOTHING  WORKERS  OF  AMERICA. 

Suite  TO  1-71  r>.  °)1  Union  Square,  New  York,  X.  Y. 

RJ:  uiTMr.Nr. — Established  July,  li^?>,  partly  as  an  out- 

growth of  tli  .  rch  work  don*-  <  tion  with  an  in- 

junction suit  against  the  union  at  Rochester.  X.  Y.,  April-May,  1920 
(Mi<  h:\el  Stern  v.  Amalgamated  Clothing  Workers  of  America). 

The  departrner;  economic  cpnditvons 

with  particular  reference  to  (1)  the  men's  clolhing  and  related  in- 
dustries, (2)  the  cost  of  living,  (rt)  wages  and  employment  condi- 
tions: digests  th(  de  by  the  impartial  chairmen  pro- 
vided for  under  the  agreements  between  the  manufacturers  and  the 
union  in  the  sai  'hing  manurV.cturing  centers  in  the  United 
States  and  CftHttdRj  prepares  tin*  economic  briefs  submitted  by  the 
union  in  wage  arbitration  cases  and  ni;$  y  iuvestiga- 
tions  upon  which  the  union  briefs  and  arguments  are  based.  It  is 
•ently  called  upon  by  the  officers  oil  the  union  and  the  other 
departments  (e.  g..  the  organization,  editorial  and  publicity  depart- 
ments) to  fir  formation  in  connection  with  their  activities  and 
to  make  investigations  on  wage-,  production  standards,  week- work 
jind  piecework  systems,  and  other  similar  problems  relating  to  work- 
ing conditions  in  the  indust 

AMERICAN  ACADEMY  OF  POLITICAL  AND  SOCIAL  SCIENCE. 

Thirty-ninth   Street  and  Woodland  Avenue,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Clyde  L.  Kin<r.  editor. 

Organized  in  December,  1889,  to  provide  a  national  forum  for  the 
discussion  of  political  and  social  questions.  The  academy  does  not 
take  sides  upon  controverted  questions,  but  seeks  to  secure  and  present 
reliable  information  to  assist  the  public  in  forming  an  intelligent  and 
accurate  opinion.  The  annual  membership  fee  is  $5.  The  academy 
publishes  annually  six  issues  of  The  AniidJs  dealing  with  the  most 
prominent  current  social  and  political  questions,  each  issue  contain- 
ing from  20  to  25  papers  upon  the  same  general  subject,  largely 
solicited  by  the  editorial  office  or  presented  at  meetings  of  the  acad- 
emy. The  following  recent  numbers  deal  with  personnel  questions  : 

v.  0;"i,  ]\F;iy.  1006  (No.  1"4)  :  Personnel  nml  employment  problems.    32(5  p. 

— .  Suppl.  to  May,  1916.     Steadying  employment,  with  a  section  devoted  to 
some  facts  on  unemployment  in  Philadelphia.     By  Joseph  H.  Willits.     104  p. 

67 


68  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

v.  09.  .Tan..  1017  (Xo.  l.">8)  :  The  present  labor  situation;  compulsory  investi- 
gation and  arbitration.  302  p. 

v.  71.  May,  1917  ( Xo.  1(50)  :   Stabilizing  industrial  employment.     2-46  p. 

v.  80,  Nov.,  1918  (No.  169)  :  Rehabilitation  of  the  wounded.  164  p.  (Indus- 
trial opportunities  for  disabled,  p.  62-110.) 

v.  81,  Jan.,  1919  (Xo.  170)  :  A  reconstruction  labor  policy.  211  p.  (Industrial 
placement,  p.  19-79;  Standards  for  replaced  labor,  p.  86-186.) 

V.  s.~»,  Sept.,  1919  (Xo.  174)  :  Modern  manufacturing;  partnership  of  idealism 
and  common  sense.  324  p.  (The  personnel,  p.  110-219.) 

v.  IK).  July,  1920   (Xo.   179)  :  Industrial  stability.     177  p. 

v.  91,  Sept.,  1920  (Xo.  180)  :  Labor,  management,  and  production.    17:5  p. 

Other  articles  can  be  found  by  consulting  the  "  Twenty-fifth  anni- 
versary index"  (July,  1890,  to  January,  1916)  and  the  "Thirtieth 
anniversary  index  (March,  1916,  to  July,  1921),  issued  as  supple- 
ments to  The  Annals. 

AMERICAN  ASSOCIATION  FOR  LABOR  LEGISLATION. 

131  East  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  John  B.  An- 
drews, secretary. 

Organized  in  1906  to  serve  as  the  American  branch  of  the  Inter- 
national Association  for  Labor  Legislation,  the  object  of  the  asso- 
ciation is  to  investigate  conditions  underlying  labor  legislation  and  to 
collect  and  disseminate  information  leading  to  the  enactment  and 
efficient  enforcement  of  laws  for  the  promotion  of  the  comfort,  health, 
and  safety  of  employees.  In  1920  there  were  3,124  members  (mini- 
mum annual  dues,  $3).  The  annual  meeting  is  held  in  the  last  week 
of  December  in  conjunction  with  one  or  more  of  the  American 
Economic,  Sociological,  Statistical,  and  Political  Science  Associa- 
tions. 

Investigations  and  studies  have  been  made  and  conferences  held  by 
the  association  for  the  purpose  of  determining  standards  for  legis- 
lation and  furnishing  data  for  the  drafting  of  bills  introduced  in 
Congress  and  the  State  legislatures  and  for  briefs  in  support  of  them 
on  the  following  subjects:  Workmen's  compensation  (including 
Federal  employees,  longshoremen,  and  seamen),  vocational  rehabili- 
tation for  industrial  cripples,  occupational  diseases,  health  insur- 
ance, maternity  protection,  hours  of  labor  in  continuous  industries, 
one  day  rest  in  seven,  women  in  industry,  national  public  employ- 
ment service,  unemployment  insurance,  administration  of  labor  laws. 

Publications  Nos.  1-11  (1908-1910)  and  the  American  Labor  Leg- 
islation Review,  issued  quarterly  since  1911,  contain  the  proceedings 
of  the  annual  meetings,  annual  reviews  of  labor  legislation,  com- 
parative digests,  results  of  investigations  and  othor  papers,  and  also 
the  proceedings  of  special  conferences  called  by  the  association,  viz : 
First  national  conference  on  industrial  diseases,  Chicago,  June,  1910 
(Publication  No.  10)  ;  Chicago  conference  on  prevention  and  report- 
ing of  industrial  accidents,  September,  1911  (v.  1,  No.  4)  ;  second 
national  conference  on  industrial  diseases  (jointly  with  American 
Medical  Association),  Atlantic  City,  June,  1912  (v.  2,  No.  2);  first 
national  conference  on  social  insurance,  Washington,  June,  1913 
(v.  3,  No.  2)  ;  first  and  second  national  conferences  on  unemploy- 
ment, February  and  December,  1914  (v.  4,  No.  2,  and  v.  5,  No.  2) ; 
second  national  conference  of  health  insurance  commissioners,  1918 
(v.  8,  No.  2).  A  summary  of  association  activities,  1906-1914,  forms 
volume  4.  No.  4. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  69 

The  American  section  of  the  International  Association  on  Unem- 
ployment was  first  organized  in  1911  as  a  special  committee  of  this 
association,  and  has  since  worked  in  close  affiliation  with  it.  Under 
its  auspices  a  report  on  "  The  relation  of  irregular  employment  to  the 
living  wage  for  women  "  (in  v.  5,  No.  2,  p.  287-418),  was  prepared 
for  the  New  York  State  Factory  Investigating  Commission,  and  an 
unemployment  survey  was  made*  1914-15,  (v.  5,  No.  3). 

The  results  of  an  unemployment  survey,  1920-21,  made  by  the 
association  are  published  in  the  September,  1921,  issue  of  the  Ameri- 
can Labor  Legislation  Review  (v.  11,  No.  3,  p.  189-219). 

AMERICAN     ASSOCIATION  OF  ENGINEERS. 

()3  East  Adams  Street,  Chicago,  111.    C.  E.  Drayer,  Secretary-. 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Illinois  in  1915,  this  association 
now  lias  about  25,000  members  (entrance  fee,  $10;  annual  dues,  $15), 
with  1SS  chapters  and  75  clubs.  It  is  devoted  to  the  nontechnical  in- 
terests of  engineers,  such  as  the  standards  of  professional  ethics,  en- 
actment of  engineers' license  laws,  participation  of  engineers  in  public 
affairs,  engineering  education,  adequate  professional  remuneration, 
employment  opportunities.  It  conducts  the  Engineering  Service 
IJureau.  a  cooperative  employment  service  for  its  members. 

On  November  12,  1920,  the  Employment  Council  of  the  association 
held  at  Chicago  a  conference  on  employment  and  education,  at- 
tended by  educators,  engineers,  and  employment  managers,  at  which 
personnel  work  was  one  of  the  principal  subjects  of  discussion.  A 
partial  report  of  its  proceedings  has  been  published  in  pamphlet 
form. 

The  Federal  Department  of  the  association  in  1921  prepared  a 
report  on  engineers'  salaries  in  the  Government  service,  which  was 
presented  at  the  hearing  before  the  Senate  Committee  on  Civil  Serv- 
ice on  the  pending  reclassilication  bills.  A  progress  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Fees  and  Services  of  Practicing  Engineers  was  sub- 
mitted to  the  association  in  March,  1921,  and  published.  Other  con- 
tributions to  the  study  of  the  remuneration  of  engineers  have  ap- 
peared in  Professional  Engineer,  published  monthly  as  the  official 
organ  of  the  association. 
AMERICAN  ASSOCIATION  OF  INDUSTRIAL  PHYSICIANS  AND 

SURGEONS. 

.Post  office  box  4061,  West  Philadelphia' Station,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.    Francis  D.  Patterson,  M.  D.,  secretary-treasurer. 

Organized  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  in  1915  to  foster  the  study  and  dis- 
cussion of  the  problems  peculiar  to  the  practice  of  industrial  medi- 
cine and  surgery;  to  develop  methods  adapted  to  the  conservation 
of  health  among  workers  in  the  industries;  to  promote  a  more  gen- 
eral understanding  of  the  purposes  and  results  of  the  medical  care 
of  employees;  and  to  unite  into  one  organization  members  of  the 
medical  profession  specializing  in  industrial  medicine  and  surgery 
for  their  mutual  advancement  in  the  practice  of  their  profession. 
There  are  565  members  (annual  dues,  $5).  Meetings  are  held  an- 
nually. 

The  official  organ  of  the  association,  in  which  its  proceedings  are 
published,  is  The  Nation? s  Health  (prior  to  May,  1921,  called  Modern 


70  III.    NONOT-TICIAL  Af}K.\ 


,  issued  monthly  since  May,  1919  (Modern  Hospital  Pub- 
lishing Co..  L'2  East  Ontario  Street,  Chicago,  111..  $3  a  year).     This 
'ounwl  has  a  department  "Medicine  and  industry"  (edited  by  Otto 
\  (ieier,  M.  D.)  in  each  issue. 


i 


AMERICAN  CHEMICAL  SOCIETY. 

COMMITTEE  ON  OCCUPATIONAL  DISEASES  IN  THE  CHEMICAL  TRAD: 
Prof.  Charles  Baskerville,  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  chair- 
man. The  original  committee  was  appointed  by  the  New  York  sec- 
tion of  the  American  Chemical  Society  in  February.  1912.  and  in 
the  following  year  the  parent  society  appointed  the  present  com- 
mittee to  better  conditions  of  labor  in  chemical  industry  thi-o:igh 
(1)  developing  the  interest  of  the  manufacturers,  (2)  cooperation 
on  obtaining  uniform  legislation  in  the  different  States  and  munici- 
palities, and  (3)  bringing  about  a  limited  degree  of  publicity  mainly 
among  chemists.  The  committee  has  cooperated  with  boards  of 
health  and  bureaus  of  labor  in  their  investigations  and  has  aided  in 
formulating  uniform  legislation*  especially  in  connection  with  the  use 
of  wood  alcohol. 

A  symposium  on  occupational  diseases  in  the  chemical  trades  by 
the  committee  was  published  in  the  Journal  of  Industrial  and  Engi- 
neering Chemistry  (v.  8,  No.  11,  November,  1916.  p.  1054-10(57). 
Its  annual  reports  for  1920  and  1921  have  appeared  in  the  same 
journal  (v.  12,  No.  5,  May,  1920,  p.  439-440;  v.  13,  No.  6,  June.  1921, 
p.  568-569). 

Papers  by  the  chairman  of  the  committee  describing  its  activities 
have  been  published  in  Medicine  and  Surgery  (Sept.,  1917),  a-m 
Modern  Medicine  (v.  2,  No.  5,  May,  1920,  p.  363-364). 

EUBBER  CHEMISTRY  DIVISION,  COMMITTF.K  ox  ORGANIC  /•> 
ATORS. — A  report  of  this  committee  calling  the  attention  of  manu- 
facturers to  the  poisonous  properties  of  certain  organic  accelerators 
used  in  the  vulcanizing  of  rubber  goods  and  recommending  precau- 
tions to  be  taken  for  the  protection  of  workers  was  printed  in  Jour- 
nal of  Industrial  and  Engineering  Chemistry  for  October.  1D1S 
(v.  10,  No.  10,  p.  865). 

COMMITTEE  ON  COOPERATION  BETWEEN  THE  UNIVERSITIES  AND  THE 
INDUSTRIES. — Prof.  W.  A.  Noyes,  University  of  Illinois,  chairman.  A 
report  of  this  committee  relating  to  the  training  of  chemists  for  in- 
dustrial work,  cooperative  investigations,  and  fellowships  for  re- 
search bearing  on  the  problems  of  chemical  industry  was  published 
in  the  Journal  of  Industrial  and  Engineering  Chemistry  for  May, 
1919  (v.  11,  No.  5,  p.  417).  A  brief  report  was  recently  submitted 
to  the  president  of  the  society  and  will  probably  be  published  in  the 
same  journal  during  1921. 

AMERICAN  COUNCIL  ON  EDUCATION. 

818  Connecticut  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C.     Samuel  P.  *Capen, 

director. 

Organized  in  1918  to  take  action  on  matters  which  are  of  common 
interest  to  the  educational  associations  and  institutions  represented 
in  it.  The  constituent  or  voting  membership  consists  of  14  educa- 
tional associations  which  are  national  in  scope  (annual  dues,  $100). 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIKTIKS.    R  >lrXI>ATlOXS,   ETC.  71 

In  addition,  it  has  as  associate  members  12  other  learned  societies 
having-  educational  relations  (annual  dues,  $10).  There  is  also  a  class 
of  institutional  members,  which  consists  of  133  universities  and  col- 
leges, contributing  from  $100  to  $500  a  year,  according  to  the  size  of 
nstitution. 

The  council  has  a  standing  Committee  on  Cooperation  with  Indus- 
tries (Dean  F.  L.  Bishop,  University  of  Pittsburgh,  chairman)  ,  which 
is  to  undertake,  in  conjunction  with  the  Council  of  Management  Edu- 
cation (see  p.  09),  to  specify  methods  of  training  for  college  students 
who  later  intend  to  enter  industrial  enterprises. 

IN  -:  .mding  Committee  on  Training  of  Women  for  Professional 
Service  recently  sent  out  a  questionnaire  to  employment  and  voca- 
tional bureaus  tor  women,  requesting  in  formation  as  to  scope  of  work, 
standards  required,  classification  used,  relation  to  organized  per- 
sonnel departments  in  industry,  commerce,  etc..  personnel  specifica- 
tions prepared,  use  of  general  intelligence  and  special  vocational  tests, 
and  other  data.  A  preliminary  report  on  the  returns  has  been  pre- 
pared by  Miss  Elizabeth  Kern  per  Adams  for  publication  in  the 
January,  I'.^ii,  is  Record  (published  quarterly 

by  the  council  since  .January.  i(.W). 

AMERICAN  DYES  INSTITUTE. 

130  West  Forty-second  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.    W.  R.  Corwine, 
secretary. 

This  hi-tiliilioii  is  the  a^oriat'ion  of  du-siiiil  maiiui'acinrers  in  the 
l"n  i  ted 

Co.MMrriKF.  ox  SA  v  AND  SAFETY.  —  This  committee  was 

formed  to  \y,  rode  on  nitro  .'iiid  amido  compounds  at 

the  re<jii;  e  AnuTi'-m  Kiiu'iHHH'ing  Standards  Committee,  laid 

before  the  institute  by  I)r.  r  I)  !'••  chief  of  the  Division  of 

Hygiene  an  -.!  vring,  Pennsylvania  Department  of  Labor  and 

stry.  A  tentative  <lraft  wftfi  --ubmitted.  but  was  not  considered 
entirely  satisfactory  At  the  July,  10-J1,  incrting  of  the  institute  the 
committee  was  reorganised  and  str<Mi'_.-thcned  and  instructed  to  per- 
fect the  'cde  as  soon  as  possible. 


AMERICAN  ELECTRIC  RAILWAY  TRANSPORTATION  AND  TRAFFIC 

ASSOCIATION. 

8  West   Fortieth   Street,   Xew   York,  N.    Y.     James  W.  Welsh, 
retary. 

Organized  in  19()s  as  one  of  the  affiliated  associations  of  the  Ameri- 
can Kit-;  trie  Rail  '.\  ay  Association,10  for  the  consideration  of  general 
operating  methods  in  detail,  run--,  freight  and  express  time-tables, 
the  hiring  and  training  of  em;  block  signals,  multiple-unit 

operation,  and  other  matters  relative  to  traffic  and  transportation. 

COM  ox  PERSONNEL  AND  TRAIXIXC;  OF  TRANSPORTATION  DE- 

PARTMENT EMPLOYEES.  —  James  P.  Barnes,  chairman.  The  report  of 
this  committee  presented  at  the  annual  convention,  October  3  to  7, 
1921.  deals  with  the  application  blank,  preliminary  testing,  medical 
examination,  instruction,  "  breaking  in,"  and  written  and  oral  exami- 
nations for  new  employees,  and  ha*  been  printed  in  pamphlet  form. 

10  This  orqaniy.ation  changed  its  wimp  from  American  Street  ami  intenu'iKin  Railway 
Association  to  Amc.rican  Electric  Railway  Association  in  1910,  and  a  corresponding  change 
took  place  in  the  names  of  all  of  its  affiliated  associations. 


72  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

Earlier  reports  may  be  found  in  the  volumes  of  proceedings  (e.  g.> 
1912,  p.  331-364;  1915,  p.  285-301). 

Standard  employment,  reference,  and  physical  examination  blanks 
adopted  at  the  1909  convention  are  furnished  at  cost  by  the  American 
Electric  Railway  Association  to  member  companies.  A  pamphlet 
containing  samples  of  all  of  these  forms  may  be  obtained  from  the 
office. 

AMERICAN  ENGINEERING  COUNCIL. 

•See  Federated  American  Engineering  Societies  (p.  102). 

AMERICAN  ENGINEERING  STANDARDS  COMMITTEE. 

29  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  X.  Y.  P.  G.  Agnew, 
secretary. 

Organized  as  the  result  of  the  work  of  a  joint  committee  of  the 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  American  Institute  of  Mining 
and  Metallurgical  Engineers,  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engi- 
neers, American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers,  and  American  So- 
ciety for  Testing  Materials,  appointed  December,  1916,  to  consider 
the  formation  of  a  central  national  body  to  serve  as  a  clearing  house 
for  standards,  the  American  Engineering  Standards  Committee  held 
its  first  meeting  in  October,  1918.  Originally  it  consisted  of  three 
representatives  of  each  of  the  five  societies  above  named ;  but  in  1919 
representatives  of  three  Government  departments — Navy,  War,  and 
Commerce — were  added,  and  the  constitution  was  revised  to  make 
provision  for  representation  of  other  bodies  of  national  scope  in- 
terested in  standardization,  which  may  be  either  single  organizations 
or  groups  of  organizations.  During  1920  the  following  bodies  be- 
came represented  upon  it :  United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture ;  United  States  Department  of  the  Interior ;  American  Electrical 
Railway  Association;  National  Safety  Council;  Society  of  Auto- 
motive Engineers;  Electrical  Manufacturers  Council  (representing 
Associated  Manufacturers  of  Electrical  Supplies.  Electrical  Manu- 
facturers Club,  Electric  Power  Club)  ;  electric  light  and  power  group 
(including  Association  of  Edison  Illuminating  Companies,  National 
Electric  Light  Association)  ;  fire-protection  group  (including  Asso- 
ciated Factory  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Companies,  National  Board  of 
Fire  Underwriters,  National  Fire  Protection  Association,  Under- 
writers' Laboratories)  ;  gas  group  (including  American  Gas  Associa- 
tion, Compressed  Gas  Manufacturers  Association,  International 
Acetylene  Association). 

The  American  Engineering  Standards  Committee  itself,  usually 
referred  to  as  the  main  committee,  is  thus  composed  at  present  of  47 
members,  representing  17  bodies  or  groups  of  bodies,  including  6  na- 
tional engineering  societies,  5  Government  departments,  and  13  na- 
tional industrial  associations.  Its  work  is  supported  at  present  by 
the  dues  of  the  member  bodies.  $500  for  each  representative  on  the 
main  committee  (except  in  the  case  of  Government  departments, 
pending  the  enactment  of  legislation  by  Congress  to  enable  them  to 
contribute  their  share  of  the  expenses). 

The  main  committee  is  solely  an  administrative  and  policy-forming 
committee,  and  does  not  concern  itself  with  technical  details  of  any 
particular  standard.  It  has  formulated  rules  of  procedure  for  the 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS .  ETC.  73 

development  of  standards  to  be  approved  by  it,  which,  briefly  sum- 
marized, are  as  follows:  (a)  A  standard  (or  code)  is  assigned  by  the 
main  committee  to  a  "  sponsor  "  which  is  any  organization,  whether 
represented  on  the  main  committee  or  not,  considered  capable  of 
carrying  out  the  work;  (&)  the  sponsor  organizes  a  thoroughly  rep- 
resentative ifc  sectional  committee,"  subject  to  approval  by  the  main 
committee;  (r)  the  sectional  committee  prepares  the  standard  (or 
code)  and  submits  it  to  the  sponsor,  which  after  approving  the  final 
draft  submits  the  standard  to  the  main  committee;  (d)  it  is  then  pub- 
lished by  the  sponsor  and,  on  approval  by  the  main  committee,  is 
labeled  "American  standard,"  "  Tentative  American  standard,"  or 
"  Recommended  American  practice,"  according  to  circumstances  and 
the  nature  of  the  standard.  Provision  is  also  made  for  the  approval 
of  standards  adopted  or  in  process  prior  to  1920,  if  they  have  been 
developed  substantially  in  the  same  way  or  have,  in  actual  practice, 
pi-oven  their  right  to  become  standards. 

r>e.-i<les  the  standardization  of  specifications  and  tests  of  engi- 
neering materials,  equipment,  parts  of  machinery,  etc.,  a  compre- 
hensive program  of  industrial  safety  codes  forms  an  important 
part  of  the  committee's  work.  This  was  the  outcome  of  conferences 
of  organizations  interested  in  the  subject  held  by  the  United  States 
Bureau  of  Standards  on  January  15  and  December  8,  1919,  to  ar- 
range for  general  cooperation  in  the  work  of  developing  safety 
codes  and  for  the  coordination  of  the  work  done  by  different 
agencies.  The  second  conference,  acting  on  the  result  of  a  mail 
vote,  decided  that  the  preparation  of  safety  codes  should  be  car- 
ried out  under  the  auspices  and  rules  of  procedure  of  the  American 
Engineering  Standards  Committee  and  requested  this  committee 
to  invite  the  International  Association  of  Industrial  Accident  Boards 
and  Commissions,  the  Bureau  of  Standards,  and  the  National  Safety 
Council  to  appoint  a  safety  codes  committee,  which  should  suggest 
a  list  of  safety  codes,  priority  of  consideration,  and  sponsors  for 
them.  The  organization  and  work  of  this  National  Safety  Codes 
Committee  was  (described  in  a  paper  by  E.  B.  Rosa  read  before 
the  1920  meeting  of  the  International  Association  of  Industrial  Ac- 
cident Boards  and  Commissions  (IT.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics, 
Bulletin  No.  281,  p.  20-24). 

Two  safety  codes  in  this  program  have  now  been  formally  ap- 
proved by  the  main  committee,  viz : 

S.  Bureau  of  Stan-lards.  National  safety  code  for  the  protection  of  the 
heads  and  eyes  of  industrial  workers.  1st  ed.,'  Dec.,  1920.  (Bureau  of  Stand- 
ards Handbook  Series,  No.  i>.)  Approved  Jan.  20,  1921,  as  "Recommended 
Amc-ri.  an  practice." 

National  Tire  Protection  Association.  National  electrical  [fire]  code.  Regu- 
lations of  the  National  Board  of  Fire  rndenvrih-rs  for  electric  wiring  and 
apparatus.  Edition  of  1920.  Approved  Apr.  19,  1921.  as  "American  standard." 

Twenty-three  other  safety  codes  have  been  definitely  assigned  to 
sponsors,  and  the  majority  of  these  have  reached  (July,  1921)  fur- 
ther stages  in  the  process  as  indicated  in  the  following  table. 


74. 


III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 


Code. 


Sponsor. 


Sectional  committee. 


JK'afls  prepared. 


A  vial  ion 

Compressed  air  mach- 
inery- 

Cons  true!  ion 

safoty 

KUviiic  power-  con- 
trol. 

Floor  openings,  rail- 
ings, and  toe-boards 


Formed. 


Foundries . 


Gas. 


Grinding  wheels 


Ladders. 
Lighting. 


Lightning 

Logging 

Machine  tools.. 


Power  transmission. . . 


Paper  and  pulp. 
Power  presses. . 
Refrigeration . . . 


Stairways. . 
Sanitation.. 

Textiles 

Ventilation. 


[Bureau  of  Standards. . . 
{Society  of  Automotive  Engin 
[    eers. 

American   Society   of  Safety 
Engineers. 

National  Safety  Council Formed  and  approved 

Bureau  of  Standards 

Electrical  Safety  Conference 

National  Association  of  Mu 

Casualty  Companies. 
(National    Founders   Associa- 
I     tion. 

j  American  Foundrymen's  As- 
(    soeiation. 

I  Bureau  of  Standards 

\Ainerican  Gas  Association 

("rinding  Wheel  Manufactur- 
ers Association. 
International  Association    of 
Industrial  Accident  Boards 
and  Commissions. 
American   Society   of  Safety 

Engineers. 

Illuminating  Engineering  So- 
ciety. 

(Bureau  of  Standards 

^American  Institute  of  Electri- 
(    cal  Engineers. 

Bureau  of  Standards 

National  Machine  Tool  Build- 
ers Association. 
National  Workmen's  Compen- 
sation Service  Bureau. 
American  Society  of  Mechan- 
ical Engineers. 

International  Associalion  of  fn 
dustrial    Accident    Boards 
and  Commissions. 
National  Workmen's  Compen- 
sation Service  Bureau. 
National  Safety  Council. 


[Formed  and  approved. 

\Formed  and  submit- 
/      ted. 


>  Formed  and  approved. 


Formed  and  submit- 
ted. 
Formed  and  approved. 


Formed  and  approved. 


.do. 


Woodworking. 


American  Society  of  Ref  rifc-era- 

i  Engineers'. 

National  Fire  Protection  As- 
sociation . 

IT.  S.  Public  Health  Service. . 
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Sponsors  for  the  following  codes  have  been  recommended  by  the 
National  Safety  Codes  Committee  and  approved  by  the  main  com- 
mittee but  definite  assignments  have  not  yet  been  made  for  the 
reasons  indicated : 

(«)  Not  yet  accepted  by  proposed  sponsors:  Steam  boilers  (American  So- 
ciety of  Mechanical  Engineers)  ;  explosives  (Institute  of  Makers  of  Explo- 
sives) ;  nonlired  pressure  vessels  (American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers)  ; 
tanneries  (Tanners'  Council);  blast  furnaces  (National  Safety  Council,  con- 
ditional on  mining)  ;  blooming  and  rolling  mills  (National  Safety  Council,  con- 
ditional on  mining). 

(b)  Accepted  by  sponsors  but  manufacturers  objected:  A  combined  electric 
fire  and  safety  code  under  the  joint  sponsorship  of  National   Fire  Protection 
Association  and  Bureau  of  Standards. 

(c)  Declined    by    proposed    sponsor:    Industrial    power    control    (Electrical 
Safety  Conference). 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  75 

The  main  committee  has  not  yet  approved  the  fallowing  recom- 
mendations for  sponsorships  made  by  the  National  Safety  Codes 
Committee : 

Cranes  (Association  of  Iron  and  Steel  Electrical  Engineers)  ;  elevators  nncl 
fsonlators,  locomotive  boilers  (Anierk-tin  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers)  ; 
boiler-room  equipment  ami  operation,  conveyors  and  conveying  machinery, 
•  inbusTiiHi  engines,  engine-room  equipment  and  operation,  steam 
engines  and  turbines  (American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  condition- 
any)  ;  nilro  and  amido  compounds  (American  Dyes  Institute)  ;  electricity  in 
mines,  storage-battery  locomotives  for  use  in  gaseous  mines,  portable  electric 
mine  lamps  lU.  S.  Bureau  of  Mines). 

A  four-page  circular  of  "Suggestions  on  form  and  arrangement 
of  safety  codes,"  issued  by  the  main  committee,  shows  also  the 
method  of  selecting  the  personnel  of  the  sectional  committees  which 
formulate  the  codes. 

AMERICAN  FEDERATION  OF  LABOR— Railway  Employees'  Department. 

!«r>o  Broadway,  Chicago,  111. 

BUREAU  OF  Tii>i  AHCEI. — Lei  and  Olds,  director.  Established  in  the 
spring  of  19*jO  to  carry  on  the  research  necessary  to  supply  informa- 
tion to  officers  of  the  department  and  to  the  locals,  and  to  furnish 
data  for  hearings  before  the  Railroad  Labor  Board,  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission,  legislative  committees,  etc.,  on  matters  in  which 
the  railway  shop  employees'  unions  affiliated  with  the  American 
Federation*  of  Labor  are*  interested. 

The  bureau  has  made  job  analyses  of  the  work  of  car  men  to  show 
the  amount  of  skill  required  :md  has  prepared  material  for  other 
exhibits  presented  to  the  Railroad  Labor  Board  in  the  hearings 
during  the  spring  of  19*21,  o.  g..  those  dealing  with  punitive  over- 
time, seniority  rules  of  the  national  agreement,  the  sanction  of  the 
eight-hour  day,  the  recognition  of  human  standards  in  industry, 
occupation  hazard  of  railway  shopmen,  history  of  collective  bar- 
gaining, and  a  st-idy  of  cost  of  living  and  actual  quantity  food  and 
rent  budgets  of  a  considerable  number  of  railroad  shop  employees. 
It  is  also  making  a  study  of  labor  turnover  and  unemployment  on 
a  number  of  railroad  systems. 

A  weekly  digest  of  labor  news  is  issued  by  the  bureau  to  union 
officials  of  affiliated  unions  and  to  railroad  lodges. 

AMERICAN  GAS  ASSOCIATION. 

i:i(»  i:ast  Fifteenth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Formed  June  6,  1918,  by  the  union  of  the  American  Gas  Institute 
(founded  190(>)  and  the  National  Commercial  Gas  Association 
(founded  1905)  ;  incorporated  1919. 

The  association  is  joint  sponsor  with  the  United  States  Bureau  of 
Standards  for  the  gas  safety  code  in  preparation  under  the  auspices 
and  rules  of  procedure  of  the  American  Engineering  Standards 
Committee.  (See  p.  74.)  The  first  draft  has  been  made. 

ACCIDENT  PREVENTION  COMMITTEE. — Charles  B.  Scott,  Bureau  of 
Safety,  72  West  Adams  Street,  Chicago,  111,,  chairman.  The  func- 
tions of  the  committee  are:  To  investigate  preventable  causes  of 
accidental  casualties  and  damage  in  the  gas  industry  and  to  recom- 
mend methods,  safe  practices,  and  safety  appliances  for  avoidance; 
to  devise  and  promulgate  plans  for  interesting  and  educating  em- 
ployees and  the  public  in  accident  prevention;  to  be  helpful  to  the 


76  III.    NONOFFIC1AL  AGENCIES. 

members  of  the  association  in  their  individual  accident  problems. 
The  reports  of  the  committee  (1914-1920),  containing  analyses  of 
accidents  reported  to  it,  and  rules  and  precautionary  measures  rec- 
ommended, are  included  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  association  (and 
of  the  American  Gas  Institute)  and  also  issued  separately. 

AMERICAN  INSTITUTE  OF  MINING  AND  METALLURGICAL  ENGI- 
NEERS. 

29  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Organized  in  1871  as  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers 
and  incorporated  1905.  The  American  Institute  of  Metals  became 
the  Institute  of  Metals  Division  of  this  organization  July,  1918,  and 
the  name  was  changed  to  the  present  form  February,  1919.  The 
number  of  members  (1921)  is  9,345.  The  annual  meeting  is  held 
in  New  York  on  the  third  Tuesday  in  February. 

COMMITTEE  ON  INDUSTRIAL,  RELATIONS. — T.  T.  Read,  United  States 
Bureau  of  Mines.  Washington,  D.  C.,  secretary.  This  committee, 
created  for  the  purpose  of  keeping  the  institute  in  touch  with  de- 
velopments in  the  field  of  industrial  relations,  has  organized  eight 
subcommittees  dealing  with,  the  following  subjects:  Americaniza- 
tion, cripples  in  industry,  prevention  of  illness,  safety,  education, 
mental  factors  in  industry,  housing,  employment.  Reports  are  pre- 
sented at  the  annual  meetings  and  have  been  printed  for  1919-1921 
in  the  Transactions  (v.  60,  p.  810-814),  and  in  the  institute's  monthly 
publication.  Mining  and  Metallurgy  for  August,  1920  (p.  8-11)  and 
April,  1921  (p.  11-17).  The  subcommittee  on  mental  factors  in  in- 
dustry is  the  only  one  which  has  promoted  any  original  research,  viz, 
the  investigation  in  its  field  provided  for  by  Engineering  Foundation 
(see  p.  102). 

Sessions  devoted  to  personnel  problems  have  been  held  at  each 
annual  meeting,  1918  to  date.  The  papers  and  discussions  at  these 
sessions  in  1918  and  1919  appear  in  the  Transactions  (v.  59,  p.  590- 
662,  and  v,  60,  p.  748-818). 

AMERICAN  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION. 

535  North  Dearborn  Street,  Chicago,  111.  Alexander  R.  Craig, 
secretary. 

The  Scientific  Assembly  of  the  American  Medical  Association 
does  not  provide  a  special  section  on  industrial  medicine  and  sur- 
gery, but  papers  on  subjects  in  this  field  are  presented  at  each  annual 
meeting  in  the  different  sections  of  the  Scientific  Assembly,  e.  g., 
medical  topics  in  the  Section  on  Practice  of  Medicine,  surgical  topics 
in  the  various  sections  dealing  writh  surgery,  public  health,  and 
medico-sociological  questions  in  the  Section  on  Preventive  Medi- 
cine and  Public  Health. 

Occasionally  special  sessions  have  been  devoted  to  industrial  medi- 
cine and  surgery,  e.  g.,  the  second  national  conference  on  industrial 
diseases  Avas  held  jointly  with  the  American  Association  for  Labor 
Legislation  at  Atlantic  City,  June,  1912;  in  the  annual  meeting  of 
1915  the  Section  on  Preventive  Medicine  and  Public  Health  had  a 
symposium  on  industrial  sanitation;  in  1918  the  Orthopedic  Section 
held  a  symposium  on  industrial  surgery;  two  meetings  of  the  Sec- 
tion on  Miscellaneous  Topics  for  the  1919  annual  session  were  de- 
voted to  the  presentation  of  a  program  on  industrial  medicine  and 
surgery.  Scientific  contributions  in  this  field  are  published  from 


ASSOCIATIONS,    SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  77 

time  to  time  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association 
(weekly). 

In  1913-14  a  Committee  on  Conservation  of  Vision  appointed  by 
the  association  prepared  and  published  "  Conservation  of  vision 
series.  Pamphlets  1—20,"  of  which  No.  14  is  "  Visual  requirements  of 
transportation  employees,"  by  J.  J.  Carroll  (14  p.). 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Ultraviolet  and  Visible  Trans- 
mission of  Eye-Protective  Glasses,  appointed  by  the  Section  on 
Opthalmology,  was  presented  in  1920  and  printed  in  the  section's 
transactions. 

AMERICAN  MUSEUM  OF  SAFETY. 

See  Safety  Institute  of  America  (p.  149). 

AMERICAN  POSTURE  LEAGUE. 

I  Madison  Avenue  (Metropolitan  Tower),  New  York,  N.  V. 
Henry  Ling  Taylor,  M.  D.,  secretary. 

A  national  health  organization  organized  in  1913  and  incorporated 
the  following  year  to  do  scientific  and  educational  work  in  the 
standardization  and  improvement  of  conditions  affecting  the  posture 
of  the  human  body. 

While  the  principal  activities  of  this  organization  have  been  in 
the  field  of  personal,  public,  and  school  hygiene,  its  technical  com- 
mittee on  seating  has  made  anatomical  studies  for  the  improvement 
of  the  design  of  chairs,  stools,  etc.,  for  industrial  establishments  and 
offices,  so  as  to  promote  correct  posture  and  help  to  eliminate  fatigue. 
An  article  by  the  secretary  on  "Seating  of  industrial  employees" 
in  a  recent  issue  of  Modern  Medicine  (v.  3,  No.  3,  Mar.,  1921,  p.  164) 
gives  the  results  of  the  league's  studies  on  this  subject.  An  account 
of  its  other  activities  appears  in  the  December,  1920,  number  of  the 
same  periodical  (p.  777-779). 

Lists  of  reprints  of  articles  on  posture,  wall  charts,  lantern  slides, 
and  other  educational  material  issued  by  the  league  may  be  ob- 
tained on  application. 

AMERICAN  PSYCHOLOGICAL  ASSOCIATION. 

Edwin  G.  Boring,  Clark  University,  Worcester,  Mass.,  secretary. 

Organized  in  1892  for  the  advancement  of  the  interests  of  psy- 
chology as  a  science.  Meetings  are  held  annually  in  the  last  week  of 
December.  The  proceedings,  with  abstracts  of  papers  read,  are  pub- 
lished in  an  association  number  of  the  Psychological  Bulletin  every 
yea  r. 

At  each  annual  meeting  recently  a  considerable  number  of  papers 
have  been  presented  relating  to  intelligence  tests  and  other  subjects 
in  the  field  of  personnel  research,  e.  g.,  at  the  Chicago  meeting  1920 
a  joint  session  with  the  Section  of  Psychology  and  Section  of  Edu- 
cation of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
devoted  to  intelligence  tests,  was  held  December  29  (Psychol.  Bull., 
v.  18,  No.  2,  February,  1921). 

In  1906  a  Committee  on  the  Standardizing  of  Procedure  in  Ex- 
perimental Tests,  under  the  chairmanship  of  Prof.  James  E.  Angell, 
was  appointed  to  act  as  a  general  control  committee  on  the  subject 
of  measurements.  Its  work  is  represented  by  the  following  reports : 

Report  of  the  committee  ...  on  the  standardizing  of  procedure  in  ex- 
perimental tests.  1910.  107  p.  (Psychol.  Monographs,  v.  13,  No.  1,  whole 
Ko.  53.) 


78  III.    iMKNOi  fiC'IAL   A(JKNCIES. 

Association  lests,  by  R.  S.  WOCK! worth  find  F.  1,.  Wells.  1911.  85  p.  (Psy- 
chol.  Monographs,  v.  13,  No.  5,  whole  No.  57.) 

In  December,  1910,  a  Committee  on  the  Academic  Status  of  Psy- 
chology published  us  its  report: 

Baldwin,  F>.  T.  A.  survey  of  psychological  investitrations  with  ivlVivnce  to 
differentiation  between  psychological  experiments  and  mental  tests.  Swartli- 
n  :ore,  1916. 

The  work  of  the  association  and  its  committees  during1  the  war, 
ID  connection  with  the  establishment  of  the  Army  psychological  serv- 
ice for  intelligence  testing;  and  the  study  of  special  psychologic:;! 
problems  relating1  to  various  military  activities,  is  described  in 
Robert  M.  Yerkes'  presidential  address,  December,  1917,  "  Psychol- 
ogy in  relation  to  the  war"  (Psychol.  Rev.,  v.  25,  No.  2,  March.  1918, 
p.  85-115)  and  in  his  "Report  of  the  Psychology  Committee  of  the 
National  Research  Council"  (its  Reprint  and  circular  series.  No.  2; 
from  Psychol.  Rev.,  v.  26,  No.  2,  March,  1919,  p.  83-149).  The  re- 
port of  the  Committee  on  Reeducation  Research  (S.  I.  Franz,  Gov- 
ernment Hospital  for  Insane,  chairman)  was  published  in  December, 
1917  (Psychol.  Bull.,  v.  14,  No.  12,  p.  416  ff.). 

At  the  December,  1920,  meeting  a  standing  Committee  on  Certifi- 
cation of  Consulting  Psychologists  was  created,  following  the  presen- 
tation of  a  printed  report  of  a  special  committee  previously  ap- 
pointed to  investigate  the  question. 

AMERICAN  PUBLIC  HEALTH  ASSOCIATION. 

Penn  Terminal  Building,  Seventh  Avenue  and  Thirty-first 
Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  A.  W.  Hedrich,  secretary. 

Organized  in  1872,  for  the  advancement  of  sanitary  science  and 
promotion  of  organizations  and  measures  for  the  practical  applica- 
tion of  public  hygiene.  There  are  now  seven  sections :  Laboratory, 
Vital  statistics,  tublic  health  administration.  Sociological,  Sanitary 
engineering,  Industrial  hygiene,  Food  and  drugs.  Meetings  are  held 
annually  at  time  and  place  determined  by  the  board  of  directors. 
The  fiftieth  annual  meeting  will  be  held  in  New  York  City,  Novem- 
ber 14-18,  1921,  and  it  is  proposed  to  have  a  health  institute  in  con- 
nection with  it. 

The  American  Journal  of  Public  Health  is  the  official  monthly 
publication  of  the  association,  in  which  its  proceedings  and  papers 
presented  before  its  sections  are  published.  This  periodical  has  n 
department  on  industrial  hygiene  and  occupational  diseases,  consist- 
ing of 'abstracts  of  current  literature,  conducted  by  E.  R.  Hayhiirst, 
and  E.  B.  Starr.  The  A.  P.  H.  A.  News  Letter,'  issued  the  8th  of 
each  month,  contains  personal  notes,  public  health  news,  etc.  The 
issue  for  May,  1921,  contains  a  complete  list  of  the  committees  of 
the  association,  giving  their  personnel,  scope,  activities,  and  plans. 

SECTION  ox  INDUSTRIAL  HYGIENE. — Dr.  W.  A.  Sawyer,  343  State 
Street,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  secretary.  This  section  was  organized  in 
1914  and  now  has  about  100  members.  A  sketch  of  the  develop- 
ment of  industrial  hygiene  and  protective  legislation  is  being  pre- 
pared by  Dr.  George  M.  Kober  to  form  part  of  a  special  volume  of 
papers  to  commemorate  the  fiftieth  aniversary  of  the  foundation  of 
the  association. 

SECTION  ON  VITAL  STATISTICS. — At  the  1917  meeting  this  section 
appointed  a  special  Committee  on  Industrial  Morbidity  Statistics, 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  79 

consisting:  of  representatives  of  the  United  States  Public  Health 
Service,  statisticians  interested  in  industrial  morbidity,  employment 
and  welfare  managers  in  industry,  and  organized  labor,  which  formu- 
ln  ted  a  standard  plan  for  recording  and  reporting  sickness  among 
employees  and  recommendations  for  tabulation  and  analysis  by  the 
United  States  Public  Health  Service.  Its  reports  at  the  annual  meet- 
ings in  191S  and  1919  were  published  as  Reprints  No.  484  and  564 
from  the  Public  Health  Reports  (  v.  33,  No.  35,  p.  1429-1434  ;  v.  34,  No. 
42,  }).  22M9-2294),  and  the  details  of  the  plan  were  presented  to  in- 
dustrial establishments  and  sick  benefit  associations  by  the  United 
States  Public  Health  Service  in  Reprint  No.  573  from  the  Public 
Health  Reports  (v.  34,  No.  46,  November  14,  1919,  p.  2593-2604), 
entitled  "  Sickness  records  for  industrial  establishments."  The  com- 
mittee has  been  continued  bv  the  section  as  the  standing  Committee 
Morbidity  Reports  and  Mortality  Statistics  in  Industry  (Louis 
I.  Dublin,  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Co.,  New  York,  chairman,  to 

ith  the  Tinted  State^  Public  Health  Service. 

LABORATORY  SECTION.  —  The  Committee  on  Standard  Methods  for 

the  Examination  of  Air,  appointed  by  this  section,  made  four  re- 

hods  for  use  in  ventilation  studies,  which  have  been  pub- 

d  as  follows:   First  (preliminary),  1JH)1»,  Amer.  Jour.  Pub.  Hyg. 

.  p.  34('»:  second  (preliminary),  11)12,  Amer.  Jour.  Pub.  Health, 

v.  3,  p.  78:  third  (final)  fern,  v.  7,  p.  54;  fourth  (supplemen- 

tary), 1919,  idem*  v.  in.  p.  4.jo.     It  is  i.o\v  merged  in  the  Committee 

on  Standard  Method^  (  ttogrr  (i.  iVrkins,  Western  Reserve  Medical 

ool,   Cleveland,  chairman),   which   has  been  substituted   for  the 

separate  committee-  on  particular  standard-. 

AMERICAN  RAILWAY  ASSOCIATION. 

30  kreet,  Xe\v  York.  X.  Y.    J.  E.  Fairbanks,  secretary. 

The  object  of  this  association  is  the  discussion  and  recommenda- 
tion of  methods  for  the  management  and  oj>eration  of  American  rail- 
.     Its  membership  consists  of  common  carriers  which  operate 
American  steam  railways. 

COMMITTKK   ox    TRANSPORTATION.  —  This   standing   committee   ex- 
amines into  and  reports  upon  questions  affecting  transportation,  such 
as   train  rules,  rules  for  the  operation  of  interlocking  and  block 
,us.  etc. 

M.MITTKK     ON     THE     SAFE     TRANSIT  >RTATION     OF     EXPLOSIVES     AND 

'•:u  I)AXc;i:i{or-  ARTICLES.  —  This  committee  has  formulated  rules 
on  the  subject  indicated  in  its  title.  The  Bureau  of  Explosives, 
maintained  by  the  association  at  its  headquarters,  receives  reports 

•i  dents  due  to  explosives  and  investigates  them. 

The  rules  above  noted  are  printed  in  the  "Rule  book"  of  the  asso- 

ciation, which  includes  also  u  Code  of  rules  governing  the  determina- 

tion of  physical  and  educational  qualifications  for  employees  —  Oper- 

ating department/"  adopted  April,  1906    (edition  of  March.   1917, 


AMERICAN  SOCIETY  OF  HEATING  AND  VENTILATING  ENGINEERS. 

29  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Organized  in  1894  for  the  promotion  of  the  arts  and  sciences 
connected  with  heating  und  ventilating  in  all  branches,  the  society 
now  has  local  chapters  in  Illinois,  Kansas  City,  Massachusetts, 


80  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

Michigan,  Minnesota,  Xew  York,  Western  Xew  York,  Ohio,  Eastern 
Penns}7]vania,  Pittsburgh,  and  St.  Louis.  The  annual  meeting  is 
held  in  New  York,  beginning  the  fourth  Tuesday  in  January ;  semi- 
annual professional  sessions  are  held  at  time  and  place  determined 
by  the  council.  Annual  dues,  $10 ;  initiation  fee,  for  members  and 
associates,  $15;  for  junior  members,  $10. 

The  society  is  sponsor  for  the  ventilation  code  to  be  prepared  under 
the  auspices  and  rules  of  procedure  of  the  American  Engineering 
Standards  Committee  (see  p.  72). 

RESEARCH  LABORATORY  at  United  States  Bureau  of  Mines  Experi- 
ment Station,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. — L.  A.  Scipio,  director  of  research. 
Established  under  an  agreement  for  cooperation  in  certain  investi- 
gations between  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Mines  and  the  society, 
executed  in  July,  1919,  by  which  the  bureau  furnishes  at  its  Pitts- 
burgh plant  the  necessary  office  and  laboratory  space,  light,  power, 
heat,  water,  and  other  general  facilities,  and  the  services  of  certain 
engineering  assistants,  and  the  society  provides  the  salaries  of  the 
director  of  research,  assistant  director,  and  such  other  assistants 
as  may  be  required,  expending  not  less  than  $15,000  in  each  year. 
The  work  is  under  the  supervision  of  a  standing  Research  Committee 
with  a  subcommittee  of  five,  the  Subjects  Committee,  to  determine 
the  subjects  on  which  research  shall  be  undertaken.  Official  reports 
of  the  Research  Laboratory  are  published  in  the  Journal  of  the 
society  (monthly,  except  February,  June,  and  August)  and  papers 
containing  the  results  of  the  investigations  are  presented  at  research 
sessions  of  the  society's  meetings. 

The  program  of  work  in  progress  includes  two  series  of  investiga- 
tions in  the  field  of  industrial  hygiene:  (1)  Standardization  of  dust 
measurements,  and  (2)  temperature,  humidity,  and  air  motion  ef- 
fects on  health.  In  the  first-mentioned  series  three  papers  have  been 
published  in  the  Journal,  viz :  Theory  of  dust  action,  by  O.  W.  Arms- 
pach  (in  v.  26,  No.  9,  December,  1920,  p.  819-829)  ;  Efficiency  of 
the  Palmer  apparatus  (in  v.  26,  No.  8,  November,  1920,  p.  687).  and 
of  the  sugar  tube  (v.  27,  No.  2,  March,  1921,  p.  119-123)  for  deter- 
mining dust  in  air.  In  the  second  group,  a  study  of  the  relation 
of  wet-bulb  temperature  to  health,  by  O.  W.  Armspach,  was  pub- 
lished in  the  Journal  for  May,  1920.  An  investigation  of  the  effect 
of  humidity  and  temperature  on  the  human  system  undertaken  by 
Prof.  F.  B.  Rowley  at  the  University  of  Minnesota,  forms  part  of  a 
program  of  cooperative  research  between  universities  and  colleges 
and  the  Research  Laboratory,  which  is  an  important  feature  of  the 
plan  of  the  Research  Committee.  Similarly  a  study  of  certain  ven- 
tilation problems  is  being  made  in  cooperation  with  the  Minneapolis 
school  board. 

AMERICAN  SOCIETY  OF  MECHANICAL  ENGINEERS. 

29  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.    Calvin  W.  Rice, 
secretary. 

Organized  in  April,  1880,  for  the  promotion  of  the  arts  and  sciences 
connected  with  engineering  and  mechanical  construction.  There  are 
now  local  sections  in  42  cities  and  11  professional  sections,  viz,  Aero- 
nautics. Cement,  Fuel,  Gas  power,  Machine  shop,  Materials  han- 
dling, Management,  Ordnance,  Power,  Railroads,  Textiles. 


ASSOCIATIONS,    SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  81 

i 

A  session  on  industrial  relations  was  held  at  the  Detroit  meeting, 
June,  1919;  the  papers  (Xos.  1692,  1693)  and  discussion  thereon  are 
found  in  the  Transactions  of  the  society  (v.  41,  p.  145-208).  A  num- 
ber of  other  papers  on  personnel  matters  have  been  presented  before 
the  society  from  time  to  time  and  published  in  its  Transactions  or  in 
Mechanical  Engineering.  Some  of  these  are  available  in  pamphlet 
form,  e.  g.,  on  labor  turnover  (Xos.  1624-1648),  woman  workers,  Xos. 
1627,  1628),  labor  dilution  (Xo.  1671),  industrial  organization  (No. 
1672),  industrial  unrest  (Xo.  I721a),  mutual  control  of  industry 
(Xo.  lT21b),  profit  sharing  (Xo.  I721c),  wage  pa3^ment  (Xo.  I721d). 
A  session  at  the  annual  meeting  in  1918  was  devoted  to  discussion  of 
the  crippled  soldier  problem  (Jour.  Amer.  Soc.  Mech.  Eng.,  v.  40, 
p.  51-61). 

A  number  of  papers  on  industrial  safety  and  accident  prevention 
have  been  published  in  the  Transactions,  some  of  which  are  available 
in  pamphlet  form  (e.  g.,  Xos.  1510-1513,  1523,  1572,  1597,  1598,  1625, 
1631). 

On  the  invitation  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engi- 
neers, delegates  of  a  number  of  engineering  societies  met  in  Xew 
York.  May  (>.  1921,  to  discuss  plans  for  a  congress  of  engineers  allied 
to  the  mechanical  engineer*  to  consider  education  in  industry,  em- 
]>r;>'-ing  (1)  education  of  engineers  and  higher  executives,  (2)  educa- 
tion of  foremen  and  department  heads,  (3)  education  of  workers, 
(4)  the  modification  of  college  courses  to  cover  the  requirements  of 
industry,  and  (5)  revision  of  textbooks.  It  was  decided  to  hold  an 
engineers'  congress  on  industrial  education  along  the  lines  suggested, 
the  program  and  arrangements  being  left  to  an  executive  committee 
(}V.  Herman  Greul.  Engineers'  Club,  32  West  Fortieth  Street,  Xew 
Yor!  ii  \ ).  The  meeting  will  probably  take  place  in  the  spring 

of  1922. 

MAN.UJKMKXT  DIVISION. — Organized  as  the  Management  Section 
October  1.').  HHO.  this  division  now  has  an  enrollment  of  approxi- 
mately 1.000  members  and  holds  sessions  at  the  spring  and  annual 
meetings  of  tl",-  -oi-iety  devoted  to  management  topics.  It  has  taken 
the  initiative  in  the  establishment  of  a  joint  Committee  on  Manage- 
ment Terminology,  including,  besides  its  own,  representatives  from 
the  Society  of  Industrial  Engineers,  Industrial  Relations  Associa- 
tion of  America,  Xational  Association  of  Cost  Accountants,  Taylor 
Society,  and  American  Institute  of  Accountants. 

SAFETY  CODE  COMMITTEE. — C.  B.  LePage,  secretary.  For  some 
time  the  society  has  been  engaged  in  the  development  of  safety  codes 
:  epreeentative  committees.  An  elevator  safety  code  has  recently 
•:  completed  and  is  to  be  issued  shortly.  The  society  is  joint 
sponsor  for  the  safety  code  for  mechanical  transmission  of  power 
being  prepared  under  the  auspices  of  the  American  Engineering 
Standards  Committee  (see  p.  72)  and  is  represented  on  the  follow- 
ing sectional  committees  which  are  drafting  safety  codes :  Floor  open- 
ings, railings,  and  toe  boards;  Grinding  machinery;  Industrial  light- 
ing code;  Ladders;  Logging  and  sawmill  machinery;  Machine  tools; 
Paper  and  pulp  mills:  Power  presses.  It  has  also  been  nominated  as 
,sor  for  vnrious  other  codes  but  has  not  yet  accepted  these  spon- 
sorships. 

70723°— Bull.  299—21 6 


82  III.    NONOFFICIAL,  AGENCIES. 

This  committee,  now  being  organized  to  take  the  place  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Protection  of  Industrial  Workers,  is  to  be  a  standing  com- 
mittee, of  five  men  who  will  direct  the  safety-code  activity  of  the  so- 
ciety in  the  future,  acting-  in  an  advisory  capacity  to  the  council  on 
such  matters  and  taking  charge  of  the  organization  of  all  new  sec- 
tional committees  on  safety  codes  for  which  the  society  may  accept 
sponsorship  or  joint  sponsorship. 

BOILER  CODE  COMMITTEE. — C.  W.  Obert,  secretary.  In  1914  the 
committee  prepared  and  issued  the  A.  S.  M.  E.  boiler  code  and  a  re- 
vised edition  was  published  in  1918  (147  p.).  It  contains  standard 
specifications  for  the  construction,  equipment,  and  use  of  steam  boil- 
ers and  has  been  adopted  officially  by  many  States  as  well  as  by  many 
boiler-insurance  companies,  boiler  manufacturers,  and  consulting  en- 
gineers. The  committee  meets  monthly  and  formulates  "  Interpreta- 
tions of  the  boiler  code,  1918  edition,"  which  are  published 
sheet  form  with  index. 

AMERICAN  SOCIETY  OF  REFRIGERATING  ENGINEERS. 

154  Nassau  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

REFRIGERATION  REGULATION  COMMITTEE. — William  H.  Ross,  chair- 
man. This  committee,  charged  with  the  preparation  of  the  mechani- 
cal refrigeration  code  for  which  the  society  is  sponsor  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  American  Engineering  Standards  Committee,  has  re- 
cently sent  out  to  members  of  the  society  and  others  interested  an 
advance  proof  of  the  proposed  safety  code  for  suggestions  for  its 
improvement.  The  code  is  not  to  be  published  until  it  has  been 
approved  by  the  council  and  members  of  the  American  Society  of 
Refrigerating  Engineers  and  by  the  American  Engineering  Stand- 
ards Committee. 

AMERICAN  SOCIETY  OF  SAFETY  ENGINEERS. 

29  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Organized  in  May,  1911,  as  the  United  Association  of  Casualty 
Inspectors;  reorganized  and  incorporated  under  present  name  in 
1915,  so  as  to  admit  to  membership  any  person  actively  engaged  in 
safety  work,  whether  in  manufacturing  plants,  insurance  companies, 
State  labor  departments  or  rating  boards. 

The  constitution  of  the  society  provides  for  a  Research  Committee, 
a  Standards  Committee,  and  a  Codes  and  Legislative  Committee.  Of 
these  the  Research  Committee  has  not  been  appointed  for  the  current 
year.  The  Standards  Committee,  which  is  concerned  with  the  for- 
mulation and  revision  of  safety  standards,  is  at  present  investigating 
certain  rules  for  safety  in  building  construction  referred  to  the 
society  by  the  New  York  State  Department  of  Labor.  The  Codes  and 
Legislative  Committee  seeks  to  have  the  results  of  the  Standards 
Committee's  work  incorporated  in  codes  and  legislation  to  which  they 
are  pertinent.  These  two  committees  jointly  are  interested  in  a 
national  safety  code  on  ladders  now  being  prepared  by  a  sectional 
committee  formed  by  the  society  which  is  sponsor  for  it  under  the 
auspices  of  the  American  Engineering  Standards  Committee.  (See 
p.  74.)  In  September,  1921,  the  society  was  also  designated  as 
sponsor  for  the  safety  code  on  compressed-air  machinery. 

In  1919  Safety  cngmeerino  (published  monthly  by  the  Safety 
Press,  80  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City)  was  adopted  as  the  official 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  83 

organ  of  the  society,  and  papers  and  proceedings  of  the  meetings  are 
pub! i shod  in  this  magazine. 

ASSEMBLY  OF  CIVIL  SERVICE  COMMISSIONS. 

lv.  P.  Van  Hook,  city  civil  service  commission,  Colorado  Springs, 
secretary. 

Organized  1906  to  promote  acquaintance  among  administrators 
of  civil-service  laws,  to  exchange  information  and  views  concerning 
the  principles  and  methods  of  public  employment,  and  to  increase 
public  knowledge  of  procedure  tending  to  improve  and  perfect  the 
merit  system.  The  assembly  met  biennially  1906  to  1910;  since  then 
it  has  held  annual  meetings  in  June  of  each  year  at  various  places. 

The  published  volumes  of  the  reports  of  proceedings  include  in 
recent  years  papers  and  discussions  on  the  following  subjects: 
(1915)  Elimination  of  applicants  on  preliminary  requirements; 
(1917)  efficiency  records,  standard  forms  of  examinations;  (1918) 
promotion  examinations,  psychological  tests,  methods  of  removal, 
oral  tests,  physical  examination,  service  record  systems;  (1919) 
examination  for  occupation  of  clerk,  trade  tests,  examinations  for 
probation  officer,  weight  given  to  experience,  methods  of  rating 
mil  qualifications,  training  and  experience,  appeals  of  candi- 
dates from  ratings,  preference  to  veterans,  woman's  place  in  civil 
service:  (K^o)  classification  of  public  employment.  Many  of  these 
are  comparative  studies  of  the  methods  and  practices  of  the  various 
civil-service  commissions  throughout  the  country. 

Various  problems  have  been  studied  by  special  committees  whose 
reports  appear  in  the  proceedings  of  the  annual  meetings.  In  1916 
the  following  committee  reports  were  published  separately: 

Draft  of  ;i  standard  rivil-sorvi'-o  !;i\v  embodying  the  essential  principles  of  a 
practical  merit  system  of  public  employment.  18  p. 

lieport    of    cnmmincc    on    cooperation    among    commissions    «n    examination 

;;mls.     31  p. 
Fii  on  elliciency  record  systems.     56  p. 

The  final  report  of  the  last-named  committee  is  printed  in  the 

volume  of  proceedings,  which  contains  also  the  report  of  the 

iniltee  on  Advancement  in  the  Public  Service.    In  1919  the  report 

of  a  Committee  on  Cooperation  of  Appointing  Officers  was  submitted. 

At  the  10^0  meeting  a  plan  for  a  new  personnel  research  agency  was 

outlined  in  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Establishment  of  a 

National  Service  Bureau  of  Civil  Service  Standards.    The  functions 

of  this  proposed  bureau  would  be: 

To  conduct  i  Ions  in  order  to  determine  the  true  essentials  of  exam- 

ination tests;  to  determine  how  best  to  discover,  through  appropriate  tests, 
the  abilities,  rapacities,  and  aptitude  requisite  for  the  performance  of  specific 
public  service;  \*>-  have  >;.-.!'-rviso;>y  direction  over  research  work  in  special 
problems  relating  to  civil  service,  which  may  be  curried  on  by  universities, 
organizations,  or  individuals  interested  in  such  problems  of  governmental 
activities;  in  short,  to  act  as  a  clearing  house  for  civil-service  examination 
practice  and  \, 

ASSOCIATED  INDUSTRIES  OF  MASSACHUSETTS. 

1034  Kimball  Building,  18  Tremont  Street,  Boston  9,  Mass, 
A  manufacturers'  association  embracing  in  its  membership  1,045 
manufacturers  in  all  lines  of  industry  having  plants  in  Massachu- 
setts organized  to  solve  their  common  problems. 


84  III.   STO^OFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

INDUSTRIAL  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT. — H.  O.  Stetson,  secretary.  Staff 
experts  in  industrial  relations,  employment  management  and  safety 
are  employed  for  full-time  service  to  members.  Two  secretaries  are 
devoting  full  time  to  the  promotion  of  Americanization  activities 
within  the  factories.  In  cooperation  with  the  Bureau  of  Vocational 
Guidance  at  Harvard  University  the  preparation  of  a  series  of  special 
texts  for  teaching  English  to  aliens  employed  in  industries  was  under- 
taken in  1919-20.  Each  text  consists  of  loose-leaf  lessons  dealing 
with  the  processes  of  a  particular  industry,  into  which  safety  pre- 
cautions are  also  introduced.  An  account  of  this  investigation  is 
given  in  an  article  entitled,  "  Preparing  industrial  English  lessons," 
by  George  F.  Quimby  and  Charles  H.  Paull,  in  Industrial  Manage- 
ment, March,  1920.  The  following  have  been  completed  and  pub- 
lished : 

Quimby,  George  F.,  and  Paull,  Charles  H.  English  of  leather  making;  in- 
dustrial lessons  for  adult  English  classes  of  tannery  workers.  1019.  24  p. 

Paull,  Charles  H.  English  of  paper  making;  lessons  for  adult  English  classes. 
1920.  28  p. 

The  first  Massachusetts  accident  prevention  congress  was  held  at 
Worcester  in  1920  under  the  joint  auspices  of  this  organization  and 
locals  of  the  National  Safety  Council.  Its  proceedings  have  been 
published. 

ASSOCIATION    FOR   THE   PREVENTION    AND    RELIEF    OF    HEART 
DISEASE. 

325  East  Fifty-seventh  Street,  New  York.  N.  Y.  Miss  M.  L. 
Woughter,  executive  secretary. 

Incorporated  December  18,  1915,  to  coordinate  the  agencies  already 
dealing  separately  with  the  various  phases  of  relief  for  patients 
suffering  from  heart  disease,  and  to  provide  an  organization  to 
initiate  measures  of  prevention. 

The  association  considers  that  the  vocational  training  of  children 
in  suitable  trades,  and  the  adjustment  of  the  adult  heart  cripple  to 
some  form  of  labor  which  is  within  his  physical  limitations  are 
among  the  most  important  of  relief  measures,  from  both  a  medical 
and  an  economic  standpoint.  It  has  accordingly  made  a  study  of  the 
kinds  of  work  which  are  suited  to  the  limited  capacities  of  those 
suffering  from  heart  disease  and  has  published  a  folder  on  "  Occupa- 
tions for  cardiacs"  for  popular  distribution.  The  placement  work 
which  it  started  is  now  continued  through  the  special  bureau  for 
cardiacs  established  by  the  Bureau  for  the  Handicapped  of  the  Hos- 
pital Social  Service  Association  of  New  York  City. 

A  fund  has  recently  been  given  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  survey 
of  all  the  cardiacs  for  whom  occupations  have  been  secured.  The 
following  questions  are  to  be  investigated:  (1)  Ability  of  the  in- 
dividual to  continue  at  work  in  the  job  secured;  (2)  whether  the 
work  presents  features  unexpectedly  taxing;  (3)  whether  the  cardiac 
keeps  in  touch  with  his  own  physician  or  one  of  the  cardiac  clinics; 
(4)  present  state  of  health;  (5)  the  need  for  occasional  rest,  either  at 
home  or  in  an  institution,  to  prevent  a  breakdown. 

A  Committee  on  Research  and  Scientific  Work  and  a  Committee 
on  Vocational  Guidance  and  Occupation  are  included  among  those 
recently  organized.  Further  information  as  to  the  association's 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  85 

activities  is  given  in  its  first  report  for  the  period  December  18,  1915, 
to  January  1,  1921. 

The  work  has  been  supported  by  annual  dues  of  members  and  dona- 
tions, particularly  from  the  Burke  foundation.  In  the  spring  of  1920, 
when  the  Trade  School  for  Cardiac  Convalescents  (founded  1912) 
was  dissolved,  its  endowment  fund  of  $7,000  was  transferred  to  the 
association. 

ASSOCIATION  OF  COLLEGIATE  SCHOOLS  OF  BUSINESS. 

Dean  L.  C.  Marshall,  School  of  Commerce,  University  of  Chi- 
cago, president. 

Organized  in  1918  for  the  promotion  and  improvement  of  higher 
business  education  in  North  America,  this  association  is  composed  of 
institutions  giving  collegiate  business  training  of  a  certain  grade  and 
type.  It  has  at  present  19  members  (annual  dues,  $25).  Institutions 
may  be  admitted,  on  recommendation  of  the  executive  committee,  by 
a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  represented  and  voting. at  an  annual 
ling  (generally  held  in  May). 

end  of  the  papers  presented  at  the  meetings  have  been  pub- 
ii>iicd  in  the  Journal  of  Political  Economy  issued  by  the  University 
of  Chicago.  At  the  third  general  meeting,  held  May  5  to  7,  1921, 
at  the  University  of  Pittsburgh,  a  separate  session  was  devoted  to 
k*  Courses  in  the  labor  field."  Of  the  two  papers  presented  at  this 
session,  "The  problem  of  graduate  training  in  personnel  administra- 
tion." by  Ordwny  Tead,  appeal's  in  the  Journal  of  Political  Economy 
for  May,  1921  (p.  .'15:5-367),  and  "Undergraduate  instruction  in 
labor  problems,"  by  Joseph  H.  Willits,  is  announced  among  forth- 
coming articles. 

The  association  has  a  Committee  on  Coordination  with  Corpora- 
tion Training  Schools. 

ASSOCIATION    OF    GOVERNMENTAL    LABOR    OFFICIALS    OF    THE 
UNITED  STATES  AND  CANADA. 

Miss  Linna  K.  Biv.-cttc.  Industrial  Welfare  Commission,  Topeka, 
Kansas,  secretary-treasurer. 

Formed  at  Xashville,  Tenn.,  in  June,  1914,  by  amalgamation  of  the 
International  Association  of  Factory  Inspectors  (organized  1887) 
and  the  Association  of  Chiefs  and  Officials  of  Bureaus  of  Labor  (or- 
ganized 1883),  which  had  held  joint  conventions  from  1910.  The 
membership  of  this  association  consists  of  employees  of  Federal,  State, 
provincial,  county,  or  municipal  departments  having  to  do  with  the 
enforcement  and  supervision  of  labor  laws.  The  annual  dues  of  de- 
partments are  determined  upon  the  following  basis:  When  the  de- 
partment staff  consists  of  1  to  5  persons,  $5;  6  to  25  persons,  $10;  26 
to  75  persons,  $15 ;  and  where  the  staff  exceeds  75  persons,  $20.  Meet- 
ings are  held  annually,  the  place  being  decided  upon  at  the  preceding 
convention  and  the  time  fixed  by  the  executive  committee. 

The  Proceed  ings  of  the  annual  conventions  contain  papers  and  dis- 
cussions on  labor  topics  (e.  g.,  in  1920,  apprenticeship,  child  labor  and 
vocational  education,  women  in  industry,  safety,  and  compensation). 
Since  1918  they  have  been  published  by  the  United  States  Depart- 
ment of  Labor;  the  Proceedings  of  the  seventh  annual  convention, 
July  12-15,  1920,  were  issued  as  Bulletin  No.  266  of  the  United  States 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 


86  III.    NOXOFFICIAL,  AGENCIES. 

BALTIMORE   FEDERATION    OF    CLOTHING    MANUFACTURERS. 

"Room  503,  5  Hopkins  Place,  Baltimore,  Md. 

The  principal  aim  of  this  federation  is  unified  action  on  questions 
of  wages,  hours  of  labor,  and  general  working  conditions.  The  labor 
managers,  comprising  the  Board  of  Labor  Managers  of  the  Balti- 
more Market,  meet  regularly  three  times  a  week  for  the  purpose 
of  interchanging  information  on  labor  problems  confronting  them, 
to  work  out  common  labor  policies,  and  to  secure  unified  action  in 
labor  matters.  The  federation  also  aims  to  establish  standards  of 
production  and  is  studying  the  factors  contributing  to  efficient  pro- 
duction, among  which  are:  (1)  Industrial  relations,  (2)  planning 
of  work,  (3)  proper  lay-out  of  factories,  (4)  suitable  appliances 
for  the  workers  in  their  various  tasks,  etc.  It  is  also  studying  the 
general  situation  in  the  men's  clothing  industry  with  a  view  to 
obviating  as  far  as  practicable  the  seasonal  character  of  the  industry 
and  periodical  unemployment. 

RESEARCH  BUREAU. — This  bureau,  formerly  known  as  the  Clothiers' 
Research  Bureau,  is  now  a  part  of  the  federation  and  is  under  the 
direction  of  the  secretary.  It  conducts  such  investigations;  and 
compiles  such  information  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  general  im- 
provement and  standardization  of  working  conditions  in  the  Balti- 
more Market.  It  keeps  on  file  a  complete  list  of  current  piece  and 
week  rates,  with  a  description  of  each  operation  as  performed  in 
each  house,  which  is  used  constantly  by  members  in  setting  piece 
rates  and  in  settling  disputes  over  prices.  It  collects  regularly 
records  of  the  earnings  of  the  workers,  which  serve  as  a  basis  for 
discussions  by  the  employers  and  the  union;  they  show  actual  earn- 
ings by  occupation  groups  for  given  pay-roll  weeks,  and  are  com- 
parable with  earning  figures  from  other  markets,  earnings  in  other 
industries,  and  cost-of-living  figures.  Several  extensive  wage  studies 
were  prepared  for  presentation  before  boards  of  arbitration  during 
the  past  year. 

A  manual  or  handbook  of  tailoring,  containing  a  detailed  analysis 
of  the  operations  and  processes  used  in  the  manufacture  of  clothing, 
has  been  completed  recently.  The  purpose  of  this  work  is  to  lay 
the  basis  for  standardized  manufacturing  processes  for  the  industry 
as  a  whole,  to  afford  a  framework  upon  which  any  factory  can  base  its 
own  system  of  standardization,  to  train  nontechnical  men  to  be  cloth- 
ing executives,  to  furnish  a  standard  nomenclature  and  basis  for 
fixing  piece  rates  and  to  set  up  a  standard  by  which  industrial  dis- 
putes of  a  technical  nature  may  be  settled. 

This  office  prepares  and  sends  out  regularly  to  members  L 
News  Bulletins  containing  digests  of  important  decisions,  piece  rates, 
and  labor  news  from  other  markets,  etc.     It  also  maintains  a  library 
and  classified  files  of  clippings  on  subjects  of  interest  to  the  clothing 
industry. 

BOSTON  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE— Retail  Trade  Board. 

177  Milk  Street,  Boston  9,  Mass.  Arthur  James  Kelly,  secretary. 
The  Retail  Trade  Board,  which  is  the  merchants'  section  of  the 
Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce,  has  a  Personnel  Group  composed  of 
the  personnel  managers  of  some  of  the  larger  stores  in  the  city.  A 
subcommittee  of  this  group  recently  made  an  investigation  of  ab- 
senteeism and  tardiness  by  questionnaire  to  its  members  and  sub- 
mitted a  brief  report  December  3,  1920. 


ASSOCIATIONS,,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  87 

BUREAU  OF  APPLIED  ECONOMICS. 

Southern  Building,  Washington,  D.  C.    Hugh  S.  Hanna,  director. 

Organized  1914  by  W.  Jett  Lauck  and  incorporated  1919  under 
the  laws  of  Virginia,  this  bureau  is  a  private  organization  estab- 
lished for  the  purpose  of  doing  research  and  statistical  work  in  the 
ii-  (si  of  industrial,  commercial  and  general  economic  activities.  Its 
labor  research  work  has  included  compilations  of  data  regarding 
prices,  cost  of  living,  wages,  and  other  statistical  information  (e.  g., 
for  use  in  labor  cases  before  wage  boards,  etc.),  original  investiga- 
tions of  industrial  and  commercial  conditions,  plant  and  industrial 
surveys,  memoranda  on  industrial  and  labor  legislation. 

The  following  bulletins  are  the  latest  issues  of  its  printed  com- 
pilations: 

rimnats  in  cost  of  living  and  prices,  1914  to  1020.    24  p. 

W:iuvs  in  various  industries  and  occupations:  a  summary  «••['  \vago  moves 
incuts.  11)14  to  1JHIO.  6;"i  p. 

S'andards  of  living:  a  compilation  of  budgetary  studies.  lirv.  ed.  1920. 
156  p. 

The   bureau   has    prepared   a   limited   number  of  mimeographed 
copies    of   a   "Handbook   of   industrial    relations   and   conditions" 
p.),  containing  digests  of  the  more  important  laws,  programs, 
and  experiences   in   the   field   of   industrial   relations.     It  has   also 
brought  together  all  of  the  awards,  actions,  and  pronouncements  of 
National   War  Labor  Hoard,  using  printed  copies  where  avail- 
able and  reproducing  the  others  in  typewritten  form  from  the  orig- 
inal  docket   of  the  board,  in  a  compilation  v' National   War   Labor 
Board  Docket"  (5  vols.).     A  price  list  may  be  obtained  on  appli- 
cation. 

BUREAU  OF  EDUCATIONAL  EXPERIMENTS. 

10  \\esf  Eighth  Street,  New  York.  N.  Y.     Jean  Lee  Hunt,  in 

charge  of  depart .meat  of  in  format  urn. 

The  only  work  done  by  this  bureau  related  to  the  field  of  personnel 
•roll  is  th"  testing  of  undernourished  children  with  a  view  to 
discovering  whether  any  correlation  could  be  established  between  the 
condition  of  malnutrition  and  mental  ability.  An  interim  report  on 
the  investigation  appeared  in  the  Pedagogical  Seminary  for  March, 
19*2<>,  in  an  article  by  David  Mitchell  and  Harriet  Forbes  entitled, 
"  Malnutrition  and  health  education."  A  more  extensive  report  on 
the  later  work  is  to  appear  in  "  The  nutrition  class  and  health  educa- 
tion," a  publication  of  the  bureau  now  in  press.  The  results  of  this 
study  are  quite  negative. 

The  bureau  has  issued  the  following  reference  list  as  its  Bulletin  9: 

Mitchell,  David,  and  Ruger,  G.  J.    Psychological  tests:  revised  and  classified 

bibliography.     I'.HS.     1 16  p. 

BUREAU  OF  INDUSTRIAL  RESEARCH. 

L'x>  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y.     Robert  W.  Bruere,  di- 
rector. 

An  incorporated  voluntary  association  without  profit  organized  in 
February,  1918,  to  promote  sound  human  relationships  in  industry 
by  consultation,  fact  studies,  education,  and  publicity.  It  is  main- 
tained by  fees  received  for  professional  services  and  by  private  con- 
tributions in  support  of  its  research  program.  The  policy  of  the 


88  in. 

bureau  at  the  present  time  is  in-  limit 

to  work  desijT!--  'he  ^ 

The  following  .studies  have  l»fcri  JD  of  tfx 

published  by  the  bureau : 

How  the  Government  liai, 

onraiiixations  a>>oHat«-d   with   UK- 
notes  on  their  j-  •uii'-iion-.  :.ml  j-oijr-i<--.     ]<. 

American  company  shop  committee  : 
representation.     10U 

Workers'  education:  American  and  foreign  experiment 
1921.     62  p. 

Building  guild-   iu   Great  Britain,     By  Ordway  Te?.< 
study  published  In  Journal  of  American 

ional  councils  in  the  printing  trades.    V, 

30  p.    (Reprinted  from  Monthly  L  >eau  of  1^ 

Feb.,  1921.) 

The  open-shop  drive.    Who  is  behind  it  and  where  ; 
Zimand.    1921.    61  p. 

A  study  of  production  standards  in  their  relati'       fco 
istration  and  wage  payment  plans  is  in  preparation. 

The  bureau  has  made  a  labor  survey  of  the  tanning- 
ing  70  plants,  for  the  Tanners'  Council  of  the  T 
America  (see  p.  155),  personnel  surveys  of  t< 
ness  Problems  Group  of  the  Social  Order  Commiti 
yearly  meeting  of  Friends,  and  other  similar  studies,  ar 
operated  on  a  professional  basis  with  industr 
opment  of  their  personnel  organizations. 

In  1919,  members  of  the  bureau's  staff  were  r< 
church  World  Movement  to  organize  the  research    t 
Industrial  Relations  Department  and  to  give  techrr 
the  Commission  of  Inquiry  into  the  steel  strike.    T 
ports  of  this  commission  were  prepared : 

The  Interchurch  World  Movement  report  on  the  steel  strike  < 
York,  Harconrt,  Brace  &  Howe.    1920. 

Public  opinion  and  the  steel  strike :  supplementary  report* 
Commission  of  Inquiry  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movern^r1 
court,  Brace  &  Co.  192L  346  p. 

the  present  time  the  bureau  is  conducting  an  extei. 
into  the  economics  and  administrative  • 
dustry  and  has  projected  similar  studies  of  other  basic 

During  1918-1920  the  bureau  conducted  courses  in 
administration  in  cooperation  with  th*  '  Re- 

search and  the  Training  School  for  Public  Service  of  the  Bure; 
Municipal  Research.    Owing  to  the  growth  of  these  course- 
ing  costs  in  excess  of  the  bureau's  resources,  they  have  beer 
tinued  as  bureau  activities,  but  members  of  the  burea 
tinned  educational  work  in  the  field  of  personnel  administr 
under  other  auspices.11 

The  industrial  research  library  of  the  bureau  is  freely  pi 
service  of  the  public. 

"  Mr,  Leonard  Ontfcwafte  &t  Color/  -  5tj  (see  p.  17Z).  Jtr.  Ordway  '. 

,....,,.          ...          .  v,-.  ,.          ;        .       -,-.-       ,.,      ,-..,     Nl   ...-,:;,          .......       }-,.'-;••]; 

« w-e  p.  187)  :  Mr.  II.  C.  M^U-aJf  at  tite  Borwii  of  l'er*jnt*l  AOmtutotf' 
'  xi^-A  T€ad  aad  MetaUf  poUUbed  fa  192»  (Mciiraw-HUJ  Book  r 

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BUREAU  O]  .L  RESEARCH. 

N.   V. 

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:  dished  in  the  series 
v.l  the  Traintiijr  School  for  Pub- 

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Th..  red   a    !•  flf   the    Municipal   Civil 

vork    on    whki    was    ba^ed    the 
Miinations"  published  l»v  the  eommi- 

BUREAU  OF  MUNICIPAL  RESEARCH   OF   PHILADELPH1  V. 

Franklin  Inink  IJuihlin--,  Philadelphia. 

3,  with  the  aid  of  a 
detailed  fivni  t:      S        York  bureau;  ir 
nition  in  tin-  fall  «>t'  L909.      ' 
iitinir  i«'«  equipped  to  in- 

od  sol'  i  technical  probl  lovenmuMit." 

An  -eat    act  .    Held    invt  -  :'    Hvini; 

1  livinL  in  all  the  more. 

'   durinir  the    peri«nl 

froVii  Au«ru>t,  U>17.  to  M;'.y.  \    u-port  ha  Inles 

\va<  York.  Macmillan  Co.)    under  the  title 

"AY-  .ulanl   of   living   i".    Philade1  p.). 

Supplen:  livip«r    ii^ure^    down    to 

nber.    1-  ly,   were 

\    (issued 
weekly  by  the  bui 

BUREAU  OF  PERSi  UXMINISTRATION. 

17    ^"e>t    l-'ony-seventii    Street,    New    \  <»rk.    N.    >'.      Henry    C. 

Metealf.  director. 

The  Educational  I  mi  types  of  trainifitr:  An  ei«rht- 

-  trial,  commercial,  ai 

;•  cmalified  college  graduates; 

a  ^ix  v.  i«ek>"  sur.Miu  »  For  teachers  of  indiisti'ial  and  eoiuim-- 

subjects,  placement  rvcretarie-.  and  vocational  a-  --ries 

iid  discussions  for  [>rol'«  '.  women. 

IVtii  in  its  Bulletin  of  Information,  1921 

The   Division  of  Labo;  is  makes  lalu)r  audits  of  industrial 

and  mercantile  establishments:  and  studies  the  problems  involved  in 
the  employment  <-f  labor,  health,  safety,  and  working  conditions, 
instruction  and  training.  wa«re>  and  otiu-i-  incentives,  employees' 
relati(»ns.  administrative  policy,  and  executive  organization.  It  has 


90  in.  NONorric'iAL,  AGENCIES. 

carried  on  research  resulting  in  articles  011  the  following  subjects 
which  have  appeared  in  various  issues  of  the  Industrial  Information 
Service  (Boston,  Mass.)  :  Personnel  work  and  vacation  policies  in 
retail  stores;  joint  councils  on  industrial  relations;  personnel  admin- 
istration in  the  National  Cit}^  Bank  (New  York)  ;  employees'  training 
in  a  large  corporation;  safety — 24  hours  in  the  day;  real  wages — the 
cost  of  living;  "family  week";  strike  insurance,  etc.  A  paper  on 
"  Control  of  absenteeism,"  by  P.  S.  Florence,  was  published  in  Ad- 
ministration (v.  1,  No.  5,  May,  1921,  p.  634-646). 

The  bureau  also  conducts  a  placement  service  for  supplying  per- 
sonnel directors,  employment  managers,  industrial  physicians  and 
nurses,  safety  engineers,  training  directors,  editors  of  employee  maga- 
zines, job  analysts  and  recreation  directors  to  industrial  and  mercan- 
tile establishments. 

BUREAU  OF  PERSONNEL  RESEARCH. 

See  Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology  (p.  169). 

BUREAU  OF  SAFETY.^ 

Edison  Building,  72  West  Adams  Street,  Chicago,  111.  Charles 
B.  Scott,  director. 

This  bureau  was  incorporated  March  2,  1915,  and  is  supported  by 
contracts  which  it  has  with  its  several  public-utility  company  clients, 
particularly  the  Inter-Company  Insurance  Trusteeship  of  the  Middle 
West  Utilities  Co.  These  contracts  provide  that  the  Bureau  of 
Safety  shall  direct  and  supervise  the  accident  prevention  work  of  the 
several  clients,  which  include  light  and  power,  street  car,  gas,  ice 
and  water  companies. 

Its  service  includes  inspection  (survey,  analysis,  and  report  of 
operating  conditions,  recommendations  regarding  operating  hazards 
and  accident  hazards  caused  by  physical  condition  of  the  plant, 
regular  reinspection)  ;  organization  of  safety  committees;  statistics 
of  accidents  (compilation,  analysis,  charts)  ;  instructional  and  edu- 
cational work  (to  committees  and  to  employees,  by  lectures,  shop  bul- 
letins for  posting,  safety  bulletins  for  each  employee). 

The  bureau  makes  studies  of  the  effect  of  safety  rules  tentatively 
adopted  and  of  contrivances  devised  by  men  working  in  the  plants 
for  their  individual  protection.  It  is  also  engaged  in  an  investiga- 
tion of  psychological  tests  for  motormen. 

Its  director  is  chairman  of  the  accident  prevention  committees  of 
the  National  Electric  Light  Association  and  the  American  Gas  Asso- 
ciation. 

BUREAU  OF  VOCATIONAL  GUIDANCE. 

See  Harvard  University  (p.  ITS). 

BUREAU  OF  VOCATIONAL  INFORMATION. 

2  West  Forty-third  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.     Miss  Emma  P. 

Hirth,  director. 

An  educational  and  research  organization  established  in  April, 
1919,  to  serve  as  a  definite  connecting  link  between  the  education  of 
women  and  their  vocational  activities  and  to  bring  about,  wherever 
possible,  a  closer  correlation  of  the  two.  It  is  the  successor  to  the 
Department  of  Information  of  the  Intercollegiate  Bureau  of  Occu- 
pations in  New  York,  whose  information  files  it  inherited  when  the 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  91 

United  States  Employment  Service  first  took  over  and  then  aban- 
doned the  Intercollegiate  Bureau. 

The  bureau  is  making  investigations  of  vocations  and  professions 
for  women  so  as  to  secure  for  each  field  of  work  definite  and  authori- 
tative information  regarding  (a)  training  necessary  and  desirable — 
schools  and  institutions  where  it  may  be  taken,  with  specific  facts 
about  each  ;  (b)  personal  qualifications  required;  (c)  best  methods 
of  entering  the  field;  (d)  kinds  of  positions  and  duties  involved;  (e) 
conditions  of  work;  (/')  salary  ranges;  (#)  ultimate  opportunities 
to  which  definite  beginning  positions  may  lead. 

The  following  studies  in  occupations  have  been  published  by  the 
bureau : 

No.  1.  Vocations  f«>r  iiusiness  and  professional  women.  1919.  48  p.  20  c. 
Published  in  cooperation  with  rl;<  ,  i  Board  of  the  Youm?  Women's  Chris- 

tian Assoi-i  i!  ion. 

No.  2.  Women  in  statistical  work.     1921. 

No.  3.  Women  in  the  law:  an  analysis  of  training,  practice,  and  salaried 
positions.  19'.!0.  138  p. 

No.  4.  The  woman  chemisi.     19J1. 

No.  f>.  I'osiiions  of  responsibility  in  department  stores  nii;l  other  retail  selling 
organizations:  a  study  of  opportunities  for  women.  1921.  126  p. 

In   addition   to    furnishing    vocational    information   to   inquirers 
and  cooperating  with  college  appointment  bureaus,  it  has  acted  as 
or  rind  publisher  of  the  Bulletin  of  the  National  Committee  of 
Bureaus  of  Occupations. 

BUSINESS  STANDARDS  ASSOCIATION. 

Is!)  West   Madison   Street.   Chicago,  111.     299  Broadway,  New 

York.  X.  Y.  Sherwin  Cody,  managing  director. 
Founded  and  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Illinois  in  1913  as 
the  National  Associated  Schools  of  Scientific  Business.  Its  object  is 
the  improvement  of  commercial  education  and  especially  the  relation 
between  employers  of  office  help  and  the  schools  which  train  ap- 
plicants. 

The  special  \\ork  of  this  organization  has  been  the  development  of 
the  national  business  ability  tests,  a  full  account  of  which  is  given  in: 

Tody.  Sherwin.  Coinmereial  tests  and  how  to  use  them.  Yonkers,  N.  Y., 
World  Book  Co.,  l!)1t».  vii,  4JKJ  p. 

BUSINESS  TRAINING  CORPORATION. 

Mjidison    Avenue.  Xew   York,  N.  Y.     440  South  Dearborn 
Street,  Chicago,  111. 

This  corporation  conducts  a  course  in  modern  production  methods, 
planned  by  Mr.  John  Calder,  in  charge  of  industrial  relations  for 
Swift  &  Co.,  Chicago,  for  the  training  of  foremen.  An  outline  of 
the  subject  matter  and  method  of  procedure  is  given  in  a  pamphlet 
entitled  "A  plan  for  group  training  for  making  better  foremen, 
adopted  by  300  leading  concerns,"  which  may  be  obtained  on  ap- 
plication. 

CABOT  FUND. 

Philip  Cabot,  111  Devonshire  Street,  Boston,  Mass.,  trustee. 

A  trust  fund  of  $50,000  under  the  will  of  the  late  Charles  M.  Cabot 

of  Boston,  to  be  applied  to  such  charitable  uses  as  a  board  of  three 

managers  may  determine.     As  illustrating  the  objects  to  which  the 

fund  may  be  devoted  the  testator  suggested  "  the  investigation  and 


92  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

study  of  industrial  conditions  in  this  country  and  the  publication 
of  the  results  of  such  investigation  and  study  to  the  end  that  in- 
dustrial abuses  and  hardships  of  industrial  laborers  may  be  known 
and  remedied."  The  whole  fund  is  to  be  expended  and  the  trust 
terminated  within  40  years  after  the  death  of  the  testator  or  within 
20  years  after  the  death  of  his  last  surviving  child,  whichever  date 
shall  fall  first.  Paul  U.  Kellogg,  Edward  T.  Devine,  and  Philip 
Cabot  are  designated  as  the  first  members  of  the  board  of  managers. 
Appropriations  were  made  in  1920  for  an  investigation  of  indus- 
trial espionage  under  the  Department  of  Social  Ethics  of  Harvard 
University,  which  was  made  by  Sidney  Howard  and  Robert  Dunn, 
and  the  results  published  in  The  New  Republic,  February  16-March 
30,  1921,  in  seven  articles  on  "The  labor  spy"  (also  reprinted  as  a 
booklet) ;  investigations  of  the  present  condition  of  the  steel  and  iron 
industry  with  reference  to  the  8-hour  day  in  Great  Britain  by  Whit- 
ing Williams  and  the  12-hour  day  and  the  7- day  week  in  the  United 
States,  by  John  A.  Fitch,  the  reports  of  which  were  published  in  a 
special  number  of  The  Survey,  March  5,  1921,  "  Three  shifts  in  steel: 
the  long  day  and  the  way  out " ;  the  preparation  of  a  report  on  the 
experience  of  20  plants  in  the  United  States  which  have  introduced 
the  three-shift  system,  by  Horace  B.  Drury,  presented  at  a  joint 
meeting  of  the  Taylor  Society,  the  Metropolitan  and  Management 
Sections  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  and  the 
New  York  Section  of  the  American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers, 
December  3, 1920,  and  published,  with  discussion  thereon,  in  Bulletin 
of  the  Taylor  Society  (v.  6,  No.  1,  Feb.,  1921). 

CARNEGIE  CORPORATION  OF  NEW  YORK— Americanizaton  Study. 
522  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y.     Allen  T.  Burns,  director. 

Early  in  1918  the  Carnegie  Corporation  of  New  York  provided 
for  a  study  of  methods  of  Americanization  and  the  survey  was  or- 
ganized in  10  divisions,  each  in  charge  of  a  specialist  in  the  field 
assigned  to  it.  The  results  of  the  investigation  are  -now  in  course  of 
publication  by  Harper  &  Bros.,  New  York,  in  a  series  of  "  Americani- 
zation studies  "  in  11  volumes,  one  from  each  division,  with  a  sum- 
mary by  the  director. 

DIVISION  OF  INDUSTRIAL  AND  ECONOMIC  AMALGAMATION. — W.  M. 
Leiserson,  chief.  The  work  of  this  division  included  personnel  studies 
of  immigrant  employees  in  industrial  establishments.  Two  sched- 
ules were  used  by  interviewers:  (a)  For  securing  data  about  indi- 
vidual immigrants  such  as  their  personal  and  occupational  histories, 
earnings,  training,  conditions  of  employment,  knowledge  of  English, 
membership  in  labor  unions  and  benefit  societies,  experience  in  strikes 
and  with  employment  agencies,  attitude  toward  employers,  etc.;  (Z>) 
applicable  to  industrial  concerns,  for  obtaining  information  with  re- 
gard to  the  methods  and  policies  of  employers  in  dealing  with  immi- 
grants, and  including  inquiries  as  to  labor  turnover,  hiring  and  firing, 
transfers,  promotions  and  lay-offs,  wages  and  earnings,  system  of 
Avage  payment,  hours  of  labor,  overtime,  vacations,  safety  and  com- 
pensation, health,  hygiene  and  sanitation,  training  and  education, 
and  other  industrial  service  work,  with  special  reference  to  foreign- 
born  workers  in  each  case.  The  report  of  this  division  is  announced 
for  publication  under  the  title.  "Adjusting  immigrant  and  industry." 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  93 

DIVISION  OF  HEALTH  STANDARDS  AND  CARE. — Michael  M.  Davis,  jr., 
chief.  A  study  of  the  special  medical,  sanitary,  and  health  problems 
due  to  immigrant  emplo}7ees  and  the  organization  of  industrial  medi- 
cal services  has  been  made  by  this  division  by  questionnaires  to  indus- 
trial physicians,  nurses,  and  employment  managers  and  by  field  in- 
vestigations made  in  1918  and  1919.  The  results  are  published  in 
Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene  (v.  2,  No.  11,  March,  1921,  p.  397- 
422),  in  an  article  entitled  "Industrial  medicine  and  the  immigrant," 
by  M.  M.  Davis  and  Linda  James,  and  form  a  chapter  in  the  volume 
containing  the  report  of  this  division's  finding,  issued  1921  under  the 
title  "  Immigrant  health  and  the  community." 

Other  volumes  of  the  series  deal  incidentally  with  problems  of  the 
immigrant  in   industry    (e.   g.,   immigrant   classes   in   factories,   in 
"School  of  the  immigrant."  by  F,  V.  Thompson,  p.  55,  99). 
CARNEGIE  FOUNDATION  FOR  THE  ADVANCEMENT  OF  TEACHING. 
r>±>  Fifth  Avenue.  New  York,  X.  Y.    Henry  S.  Pritchett,  presi- 
dent. 

In  1918  this  foundation  published  as  its  Bulletin  No.  11,  "A  study 
of  engineering  education,"  by  Charles  Riborg  Mann.  This  publi- 
cation contained  the  results  of  a  comprehensive  investigation  under- 
taken at  the  request  of  and  in  close  cooperation  with  the  Joint 
Committee  on  Engineering  Education  of  the  National  Engineering 
Societies,  which  consisted  of  delegates  from  the  Society  for  the  Pro- 
motion of  Engineering  Education,  the  American  Society  of  Civil 
Engineers,  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  the 
American  Institute  of  Chemical  Engineers,  and  the  American  Insti- 
of  Mining  Engineers.  The  report  includes  a  description  of 
present  conditions,  analysis  of  the  problems  of  engineering  educa- 
tion and  suggested  solutions.  An  appendix  on  objective  tests  de- 
scribes investigations  mad*1  by  Prof.  E.  L.  Thorndike,  of  Columbia 
University,  as  an  integral  part  of  the  study.  Their  bearings  on  the 
problems  of  admission,  elimination,  and  grading  are  discussed  here 
and  there  throughout  the  report,  but  especially  in  Chapters  VIII 
and  XL 

CARNEGIE  INSTITUTION  OF  WASHINGTON. 

See  Nutrition  Laboratory,  Boston  (p.  141). 

CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 

Mills  Building.  Washington,  D.  C.     Elliot  H.  Goodwin,  resi- 
dent vice  president. 

This  body  is  a  national  organization  of  chambers  of  commerce, 
trade,  ami  civic  associations.  Its  activities  are  threefold :  (1)  To 
serve  American  business  in  the  study  and  solution  of  its  national 
problems;  (2)  to  interpret  to  the  American  business  public  those  acts 
of  the  National  Government  -which  affect  business;  (3)  to  present 
to  the  various  branches  and  departments  of  the  National  Govern- 
ment the  opinion  of  American  business  on -business  and  economic 
questions.  In  the  formulation  of  this  opinion  on  any  subject  it  pro- 
ceeds by  the  method  of  referendum,  submitting  to  a  vote  of  its 
constituent  organizations  a  series  of  propositions,  prepared  by  a 
committee  of  the  chamber,  which  are  printed  on  a  ballot  and  ac- 
companied by  the  report  of  the  committee  and  arguments  in  the 
negative.  Propositions  approved  by  a  two-thirds  vote  are  adopted 


94  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGEXC'IKS. 

by  the  chamber.  Three  such  reports  for  referenda  submitted  by  com- 
mittees after  investigations  have  dealt  with  personnel  problems  in 
industry  and  public  employment: 

Referendum  No.  27  on  the  report  of  the  Committee  <»u  Industrial  Relations 
regarding  principles  of  industrial  relations.  Apr.  1<>,  1919. 

Refeivndum  No.  31  on  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Industrial  Relations 
regarding  employment  relations,  June  9,  1920. 

Referendum  No.  P>f>  on  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Budget  and  KlUciency 
(ling  Government  employees.  Apr.  22,  1921. 

The  Raw  Materials  Production,  Fabricated  Production,  and  Rail- 
road Departments  are  also  concerned  with  the  study  of  labor  prob- 
lems encountered  by  the  employers'  organizations  in  their  respective 
fields. 

CLEVELAND  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE. 

Cleveland,  Ohio. 

The  Committee  on  Industrial  Welfare,  which  issued  reports  on 
"  Safety  devices  and  factory  organizations  for  the  prevention  of  in- 
dustrial accidents"  (1913),  "Industrial  profit-sharing  and  welfare 
work  "  (1916),  and  "  Substitution  of  woman  for  man  power  in  indus- 
try "  (1918),  and  the  Committee  on  Labor  Disputes,  which  issued 
three  reports  on  "Violence  in  labor  disputes"  (1915,  1916,  1917), 
were  succeeded  in  1918  by  the  following : 

COMMITTEE  ON  LABOR  RELATIONS.- — W.  B.  McAllister,  chairman. 
In  addition  to  a  fourth  report  on  "  Violence  in  labor  disputes"  (1920) 
and  two  other  pamphlets  (1919),  this  committee  prepared  "Labor 
relations  in  Cleveland,  a  declaration  of  principles  establishing  a 
proper  basis  therefor,"  which  was  adopted  by  the  Cleveland  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  April,  1920.  It  has  recently  completed  and  pub- 
lished (1921)  a  report  on  "Employees'  incentive  plans  in  Cleveland 
industries"  (95  p.),  which  includes  detailed  information  regarding 
types  of  (a)  individual  incentive  plans  (wage-payment  methods 
offering  incentives  to  individual  employees  based  on  their  accom- 
plishment measured  by  predetermined  standards  of  production), 
and  (b)  group  incentive  plans  (employees'  profit  sharing,  bonuses, 
and  stock  ownership),  which  were  found  in  a  survey  of  nearly  600 
firms. 

CLEVELAND  HOSPITAL  COUNCIL. 

308  Anisfield  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

HOSPITAL  AND  HEALTH  SURVEY  OF  CLEVELAND. — Haven  Emerson, 
M.  D.,  director.  This  survey,  completed  September,  1920,  was  con- 
ducted under  the  supervision  of  a  committee  appointed  by  the  Hos- 
pital Council,  October  1,  1919  (Malcolm  L.  McBride,  chairman ; 
Ilowell  Wright,  secretary).  The  expenses  were  met  by  appropria- 
tions received  from  the  community  chest,  through  the  Welfare  Fed- 
eration, of  which  the  Hospital  Council  is  a  member. 

The  complete  report  is  in  11  parts,  sold  by  the  council  at  50  cents 
per  part.  The  results  of  the  industrial  investigations  are  contained 
in  part  8  (p.  517-639),  viz:  Industrial  medical  service,  by  Wade 
Wright,  M.  D.,  director  of  the  industrial  hygiene  survey;  Women  and 
industry,  by  Marie  Wright;  Children  and  industry,  by  Florence  V. 
Ball,  for  the  Consumers'  League  of  Ohio.  The  method  of  survey 
is  described  in  part  11,  which  contains  also  a  bibliography  of  indus- 
trial hygiene  surveys  (p,  1054-1056), 


ASSOCTATi.  :\S,    SOCIETIES,,    FOUNDATIONS,    ETC.  95 

COLLEGE  OF  PHYSICIANS. 

lf>  South  Twenty-second  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.     William  S. 

Higbee,  M.  D.,  1703  South  Broad  Street,  clerk. 
SECTION  ON  I.XIJUSTIHAL,  MEDICINE  AND  PUBLIC  HEALTH.  —  This  sec- 
tion of  the  College  of  Physicians  was  organized  in  1917.  Forty-six 
fellows  of  the  college  have  signed  the  roll  of  the  section;  meetings 
are  held  in  February,  April,  October,  and  December,  on  the  third 
Friday.  Its  proceedings  are  published  in  the  Transactions  of  the 
College  of  Physicians,  beginning  with  third  series,  v.  39,  p.  421-489, 
11)17.  The  scope  and  aims  of  the  section  are  described  in  a  paper 
by  J.  M.  Anders  in  third  series,  v.  39,  p.  461. 

COMMISSION  ON  RESUSCITATION  FROM  ELECTRIC  SHOCK. 

See  National  Electric  Light  Association  (p.  125). 

CONFERENCE  BOARD  OF  PHYSICIANS  IN  INDUSTRY. 

10  Kast  Thirty-ninth  Street.  New  York,  N.  Y.     Dr.  F.  L.  Rector, 

•retary. 

Organized  in  April.  HH4,  for  cooperative  effort  in  introducing  into 
industrial  establishments  the  most  effective  measures  for  the  treat- 
ment of  injuries  or  ailments  of  employees;  for  promoting  sanitary 
conditions  in  workshops;  and  for  prevention  -of  industrial  diseases. 
If  also  arts  a.s  adviser  on  medical  problems  in  industry  to  the 
National  Industrial  Conference  Hoard. 

Member-hip  is  limited  to  :>H.  and  is  confined  to  the  medical  di- 
rectors of  industrial  establishments  who  are  on  a  full-time  basis.  It 
is  financed  by  contributions  from  the  firms  represented  by  the 
mem' 

The  board  meets  bimonthly,  five  times  a  year,  the  midsummer 
meeting  being  omitted.  Qur-.-tion-  of  administration  of  industrial 
medical  departments,  th"  s<  •<;[>(•  and  value  of  medical  records,  methods 
of  treating  industrial  accidents  and  illness  occurring  within  the 
plant,  and  related  subjects  arc  discussed  at  these  meetings.  $u<>;- 
•d  methods  are  tried  out  by  different  board  members,  under 

11  conditions,  and  their  experiences  discussed  at  subsequent  meet- 
ings.    Methods  of  first-aid  treatment  of  industrial  injuries,  the  con- 
tents of  first-aid  outfits,  the  minimum  size  and  equipment  of  first- 
aid   rooms,  methods  of   physical  examination   and   classification  of 
physical  findings,  and  medical  terminology  used  in  industrial  work 
have  been  promulgated  and  standardized  by  this  board.    These  stand- 
ardized methods  and  classifications  have  been  published  in  Research 
Keport  No.  34  of  the  National  Industrial  Conference  Board,  which 
contains  also  a  list  of  members.     During  the  past  year  the  board 
made  a  study  of  physical  examinations  among  industrial  workers, 
the  results  being  published  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical 
Association  of  December  18,  19'2(). 


CONFERENCE  BOARD  ON  SAFETY  AND  SANITATION. 

10    Kast   Thirty-ninth   Street,   New   York,   N.   Y.     Magnus  W. 

Alexander,  executive  secretary. 

Organized  in  March,  1914,  with  the  National  Founders  Associa- 
tion, the  National  Association  of  Manufacturers,  the  National  Metal 
Trades  Association,  and  the  National  Electric  Light  Association  as 
charter  members.  Its  purpose  is  organized  cooperation  between  em- 
ployers for  the  prevention  of  work  accidents  and  the  promotion  of 


96  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

sanitary  conditions  in  workshops.  At  present  the  Conference  Board 
is  composed  of  the  first  three  of  the  above-named  associations. 

The  board  has  developed  a  number  of  protective  devices  for  use 
in  industrial  plants  which  it  recommends  to  employers  for  adop- 
tion in  their  plants.  Among  these  devices  are  safety  goggles,  arc 
welders'  helmets,  leggings,  shoes,  respirators,  knuckle  guards,  lad- 
der feet,  chip  guards,  danger  signs,  first-aid  jars,  and  stretchers. 
These  devices  have  been  made  available  for  all  employers,  whether 
or  not  members  of  the  cooperating  associations.  The  board  author- 
izes its  trade-mark,  N.  A.  S.  O.,  which  stands  for  National  Affiliated 
Safety  Organizations,  to  be  imprinted  on  all  literature  and  devices 
which  it  has  approved. 

In  1916  it  issued  a  number  of  popular  safety  bulletins  under  the 
general  title  of  "The  spirit  of  caution."  Other  information  about 
its  activities  is  given  in  a  pamphlet  entitled,  "  Conference  boards  and 
their  value  in  industrial  cooperation,"  by  Magnus  W.  Alexander 
(1915,  p.  8-11). 

CONSUMERS'  LEAGUE  OF  CINCINNATI. 

25  East  Ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.     Miss  Annette  Mann, 

executive  secretary. 

In  November,  1916,  three  investigators  of  the  league  were  ap- 
pointed an  advisory  board  by  the  Ohio  Industrial  Commission  and 
given  the  necessary  credentials  for  making  a  systematic  study  of 
the  working  conditions  of  women  in  Cincinnati  factories.  The  re- 
port of  this  investigation  was  published  by  the  league  in  August, 
1918,  viz : 

Women  workers  in  factories:  a  study  of  working  conditions  in  275  industrial 
estMhlislimeiits  in  Cincinnati  and  adjoining  towns.  By  Annette  Mann.  1D1S. 
45  p. 

In  1920  a  study  of  wages  and  cost  of  living  was  made,  covering 
the  incomes  and  expenditures  of  216  working  women  in  several  cities, 
and  printed  (7  p.)  for  use  in  the  recent  minimum  wage  campaign. 
Minor  studies  are  outlined  briefly  in  the  reports  for  1917-18  and 
1919-20. 

CONSUMERS'  LEAGUE  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

36  Pearl  Street,  Hartford,  Conn.  Mary  C.  Welles,  general 
secretary. 

Recent  investigations  made  by  the  league  to  furnish  data  for  its 
legislative  activities  include  a  study  of  "  Child  laborers  in  the  shade- 
grown  tobacco  industry  in  Connecticut,"  made  in  1916  and  published 
as  Pamphlet  No.  11 ;  an  investigation  of  164  "  Women  night  workers 
in  Connecticut,"  made  in  four  cities  in  1918  (summary  of  results 
printed  as  Leaflet  No.  20) ;  and  investigations  of  tenement-house 
workers  on  factory  products  in  five  cities  (1918),  toilet  facilities 
for  employees  in  stores  (1918)  and  seats  for  sales  girls  (1919)  in 
several  cities,  the  results  of  which  have  not  been  published. 

In  1919-20,  in  cooperation  with  the  State  Board  of  Education,  a 
study  was  made  of  the  earnings  of  children  who  go  to  work  at  14 
years  of  age  as  compared  with  those  who  leave  school  at  18  years,  and 
of  the  turnover  of  child  workers  of  14  to  15  years.  For  1921  a 
study  of  the  health  of  children  from  14  to  18  years  of  age  employed 
in  factories  and  stores  is  planned. 


ASSOCIATIONS,    SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  97 

CONSUMERS'  LEAGUE  OF  EASTERN  PENNSYLVANIA. 

814-815  Otis  Building,  Sixteenth  and  Sansom  Streets,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.  Miss  A.  Estelle  Lander,  executive  secretary. 

This  organization  has  recently  published  a  report  of  an  investiga- 
tion of  ''Colored  women  as  industrial  workers  in  Philadelphia" 
(40  p.),  made  in  1919-20.  Its  earlier  work  includes  an  investigation 
of  retail  selling  carried  on  in  1913-14  with  the  cooperation  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Department  of  Labor  and  Industry,  which  published 
the  results  in  its  monthly  bulletin  (v.  2,  No.  1,  January,  1915,  p. 
15-1)8)  under  the.  title  u  Condition  of  women  in  mercantile  estab- 
lishments in  Philadelphia  ";  a  study  of  home  work  in  1916-17  made 
by  investigators  of  the  league,  students  of  Bryn  Mawr  College,  and 
the  Department  of  Labor  and  Industry,  which  is  to  appear  shortly  as 
a  State  publication  entitled  u  Industrial  home  work  in  Pennsyl- 
vania.'' In  1918  it  initiated,  and  assisted  the  National  Consumers' 
league  in  carrying  out,  the  shoddy  study  published  as  "Wage- 
earning  women  in  war  time:  the  textile  industry"  (Jour.  Indust. 
Hyg..  October.  1919). 

Surveys  were  made  by  the  league  in  1913-14  to  gather  material 
for  three  vocational  guides  issued  as  Pamphlets  Nos.  1-3,  "Occupa- 
tions for  Philadelphia  girls'' — Xo.  1.  Paper-box  making  (20  p.); 
No.  2,  Telephone  operating  (40  p.)  ;  No.  3,  Bookbinding  (88  p.).  It 
has  recently  done  the  research  work  on  the  industrial  section  of  a 
revised  pamphlet  on  "Vocational  opportunities  in  Philadelphia  and 
vicinity."  which  is  about  to  go  to  press. 

An  unpublished  study  of  girls  in  public  messenger  service,  made 
by  the  league  with  the  assistance  of  other  interested  organizations, 
was  the  basis  of  a  ruling  by  the  Industrial  Board  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Labor  and  Industry  in  1919  prohibiting  such  employment 
of  girls  under  18  years  of  age.  A  recent  study  of  the  application  of 
civil  service  to  the  labor  departments  of  the  several  States,  under- 
taken for  a  civil-service  campaign  iix  Pennsylvania,  has  been  circu- 
late! in  typewritten  form.  Data  on  the  cost  of  living  of  working 
girls  in  the  State  and  the  wages  paid  to  them  are  collected  currently. 

CONSUMERS'  LEAGUE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 

13  Out  nil  Avenue,  Newark,  X.  J. 

In  December,  19*20,  this  organization  published  a  report  on  "  Night- 
working  mothers  in  textile  mills,  Passaic,  N.  J.,"  by  Agnes  de  Lima, 
research  secretary  (20  p.),  containing  the  results  of  a  study  made 
during  the  preceding  spring  and  early  summer. 

CONSUMERS'  LEAGUE  OF  NEW  YORK. 

ii.si)  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York.  N.  Y.  Miss  Helen  Bryan,  execu- 
tive secretary. 

Formed  by  the  consolidation  of  the  Consumers'  League  of  the  City 
of  New  York  and  the  Consumers'  League  of  New  YTork  State,  effected 
June  U.  1921. 

In  19 16  the  New  York  City  organization  completed  and  published 
the  results  of  an  investigation  of  the  working  conditions  of  woman 
employees  -in  New  York  restaurants,  viz  : 

Behind  the  scenes  in  a  restaurant,  a  study  of  1,017  women  restaurant  em- 
ployees. 1910.  47  p. 

70723°— Bull.  299—21 7 


98  III.    XONOFFICIAL,  AGENCIES. 

In  1916  the  Division  of  Industrial  Hygiene  of  the  Xew  York  City 
Department  of  Health  undertook  an  investigation  of  power  laundries 
and  laundry  workers  in  the  city.  The  Consumers'  League  of  the  City 
pf  New  York  cooperated  in  the  study  by  furnishing  additional 
investigators  to  portray  the  social  background  and  relate  the  work- 
ing life  to  home  conditions.  The  results  of  this  survey  were  pub- 
lished jointly  by  the  league  and  the  Department  of  Health  under 
the  title': 

The  cost  of  clean  clothes  in  terms  of  health :  a  study  of  laundries  and  laundry 
workers  in  New  York  City.  By  Louis  I.  Harris  and  Nelle  Swartz.  1918.  96  p. 

During  1919  the  league  made  a  study  of  conditions  of  work  in 
steam  and  hand  laundries,  and  reported  its  findings  to  the  State 
Industrial  Commission. 

Early  in  1919  a  joint  committee,  consisting  of  representatives  of 
the  Consumers'  League  of  New  York  City,  Women's  Trade  Union 
League,  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  New  York  Urban  League,  the  Division  of 
Industrial  Studies  of  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation,  and  the  Com- 
mittee on  Colored  Workers  of  the  Manhattan  Trade  School,  was 
formed  to  study  the  employment  of  colored  women  in  the  industries 
of  New  York  City.  The  report  of  the  investigation  wras  issued  under 
the  following  title : 

A  new  day  for  the  colored  woman  worker:  a  study  of  colored  women  in 
industry  in  New  York  City.  1919.  39  p. 


A  study  of  hours,  wages,  and  conditions  of  work  of  telephone 


of  the  results  is  given  in  the  Consumers'  League  Bulletin,  July,  1920. 

COORDINATING    COMMITTEE    ON    EMPLOYMENT    ACTIVITIES    IN 
NEW  YORK  CITY. 

W.  E.  Mosher,  Bureau  of  Municipal  Research,  New  York,  chair- 
man ;  G.  E.  Scott,  Brooklyn  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Brooklyn, 
secretary. 

Organized  early  in  1921  at  a  conference  consisting  of  representa- 
tives of  the  vocational  educational  activities  and  the  public  employ- 
ment and  other  noncommercial  employment  interests,  together  with 
those  representing  employers'  and  employees'  organizations  as  fol- 
lows: 
Employers'  associations : 

New  York  State  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Merchants  Association. 
Brooklyn  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Queensboro  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Retail  Dry  Goods  Association. 
Executives'  Club. 

Central  Trades  and  Labor  Council. 
New  York  State  Department  of  Labor: 
Public  Employment  Bureau. 
Bureau  of  Mediation  and  Arbitration. 
Bureau  of  Women  in  Industry. 
Bureau  of  Statistics. 
United  States  Employment  Service.' 
Noncommercial  employment  agencies : 
Knights  of  Columbus. 
Young  Women's  Christian  Association. 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 
Social  Workers'  Exchange. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  99 

Vocational  and  continuation  school  teachers. 

Vocational  Guidance  and  Employment  Service  for  Juniors. 

Bureau  of  Vocational  Information. 

State  Department  of  Education   (Vocational  Division). 

The  purpose  of  the  committee  is  to  coordinate  activities  of  these 
various  groups  so  as  to  secure  better  training,  more  discriminating 
placement,  better  organization  of  the  employment  market  and  of 
production  processes  as  means  of  reducing  unemployment,  and  to 
formulate  and  develop  a  community  employment  policy. 

Three  working  committees  have  been  appointed  to  deal  with  three 
of  the  most  pressing  problems : 

1.  Unemployment,     Chjiinnsm.  \V.   K.   Moshor ;   subcommittees  on    (1)    Uneni- 
ployiju'iir   and   tlie  schools;    C2)    Unemployment    and    relief;    (3)    Means  of  re- 
ducing present    unemployment;    (4)    A    constructive  program  for  reducing  un- 
employment as  an  industrial  waste. 

2.  Vocational    opportunities,     riuiinnan,   Charles   M.    Smith;    subcommittees 
on    (1)    opportunities    for  juveniles:    <  ii)    Opportunities   in   the  skilled   trades; 
(3)    Opportunities  for  high-school  students:    (4)    Opportunities  in  professional 
and  teehuieal  <-.-il]in.us. 

3.  Ccinlinu.-ition    schools.     Chairman.   A.    I-;.    Kidd,    Executives'   Club. 

The  committee  is  issuing  a  monthly  bulletin  (mimeographed) 
which  is  distributed  by  the  Bureau  of  Women  in  Industry  of  the 
New  York  State  Department  of  Labor  and  the  New  York  City 
Hoard  of  Education.  It  is  to  include  reports  of  progress  from  the 
above  committees  and  also  the  material  formerly  published  in  the 
uNV\rs  Sii.-et"  of  the  Bureau  of  Women  in  Industry  and  the  Vo- 
cational Guidance  and  Employment  Service  for  Juniors. 

COUNCIL  OF  MANAGEMENT  EDUCATION. 

Drexr-i  Building,  Philadelphia,  IV     Hollis  Godfrey,  chairman. 

Organized  as  the  outcome  of  a  conference  on  cooperation  between 
the  colleges  and  industries  held  in  connection  with  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Technology  Clubs  Associated  at  Philadelphia,  March  26-27, 
IDi^O,  it  serves  as  a  clearing  house  which  provides  immediate  contact 
between  the  supply  of  college-trained  management  men  and  the  de- 
mands of  in«  ior  these  men;  "management"  being  defined  "to 
include  all  mind  workers  in  industry  from  president  to  foreman, 
whether  concerned  with  the  technical'  or  the  nontechnical  branches 
of  management."5 

The  council  is  organized  in  two  divisions :  the  Industrial  Division, 
composed  of  representatives  of  different  American  industries,  viz, 
textiles,  rubber,  cotton  and  silk  finishing,  paper,  shoes  and  leather, 
machinery  and  metals,  railrouds,  public  utilities,  oil  and  mining;  the 
Industrial  Collegiate  Division,  composed  of  men  who  are  or  have 
been  administrative  officers  in  American  colleges  and  have  had  indus- 
trial as  well  as  academic  experience.  These  two  cooperate  with  the 
Committee  on  Cooperation  with  Industries  of  the  American  Council 
of  Education.  (See  p.  71.) 

The  work  of  the  council  is  confined  to  the  field  of  collegiate  edu- 
cation for  management  and  is  not  concerned  with  the  solution  of 
technical  problems  of  industrial  processes  and  supplies.  It  consists 
at  present  mainly  in  the  preparation  of  "  joint  specifications,"  sup- 
ported by  an  "  inventory  of  joint  resources,"  kept  constantly  up  to 
date.  The  specification  shows  what  the  management  man  needs  to 
fit  him  for  industry  and  how  much  of  this  the  facilities  of  the  college 


100  III.   ISTONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

permit  being  given ;  and  thus  it  provides  a  sound  basis  for  effective 
education  for  industrial  management.  The  purpose  of  the  inventory 
is  to  promote  the  use  by  the  industries  and  the  colleges  of  each  other's 
resources  reciprocally  and  to  improve  their  coordination. 

DETROIT  BOARD  OF  COMMERCE. 

Detroit,  Mich.     Harry  B.  Warner,  secretary. 

The  Detroit  Board  of  Commerce  proposes  to  revive,  in  the  fall  of 
1921,  the  work  of  the  Executives'  Club,  which  disbanded  when  its 
staff  went  into  war  services  in  191T.12 

DOUBLE  DUTY  FINGER  GUILD. 

Crocker-Wheeler  Co..  Ampere,  N.  J.    Ida  Hirst-Gifford,  super- 
intendent. 

This  department  for  the  blind  was  founded  in  1917  in  conjunction 
with  the  plant  of  the  Crocker-Wheeler  Co.,  by  Dr.  S.  S.  Wheeler,  for 
the  purpose  of  ascertaining  by  trial  what  operations  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  electrical  apparatus  and  machinery  could  be  done  as  efficiently 
by  blind  workers  as  by  their  sight  competitors,  and  of  providing  em- 
ployment for  them  accordingly.  It  undertakes  to  cooperate  with 
institutions,  commissions,  associations,  etc..  for  the  blind  by  training 
blind  men  and  women  to  become  efficient  operatives  in  the  electrical 
business.  An  account  of  the  work  done  is  given  in  a  pamphlet  en- 
titled "  Information  about  profitable  industrial  occupations  for  the 
blind  "  (Finger  Industry  News,  No.  3,  June,  1919)  published  by  the 
guild. 

ELECTRICAL  SAFETY  CONFERENCE. 

25  City  Hall  Place,  New  York,  N.  Y.    Dana  Pierce,  secretary. 

An  association  of  representatives  of  national  organizations  inter- 
ested in  questions  affecting  accident  hazards  arising  from  the  design, 
construction,  installation  and  use  of  electrical  appliances.  The  co- 
operating organizations  are  as  follows :  Associated  Manufacturers  of 
Electrical  Supplies ;  Bureau  of  Standards ;  The  Electric  Power  Club ; 
National  Workmen's  Compensation  Service  Bureau:  Underwriters' 
Laboratories. 

The  objects  of  the  conference  are  to  promote  b}^  cooperative  effort 
the  orderly,  consistent  and  proper  development  of  practice  in  elec- 
trical manufactures  and  installations  with  regard  to  accident  haz- 
ards; to  promote  the  development  and  adoption  of  safety  standards 
for  the  construction  and  test  of  electrical  appliances  and  for  their 
application  and  installation:  to  promote  and  make  uniform  the  ap- 
plication of  electrical  safety  codes  both"  in  regard  to  general  prin- 
ciples and  in  regard  to  particular  classes  of  appliances  and  systems. 

12  At  that  time  the  Executives'  Club  was  advising  40  manufacturing  concerns  in  Detroit, 
and  included  in  its  various  study  groups  about  500  functional  executives.  Personnel  re- 
search was  one  of  the  seven  divisions  of  its  work  and  the  staff  included  specialists  in 
employment  management,  employees'  welfare  work,  production  methods,  and  time  study. 
Its  library  of  industrial  relations  literature  at  the  Detroit  Board  of  Commerce  has  been 
continued  by  the  assignment  of  a  librarian  from  Detroit  Public  library. 

Two  papers  by  Boyd  Fisher,  its  vice  president,  "  How  to  reduce  labor  turnover  "  and 
"  Determining  cost  of  turnover  of  labor,"  were  published  in  TT.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Sta- 
tistics Bulletin  No.  227  (p.  20-47.  60-66)  and  in  Annals  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Political  and  Social  Science,  May,  1017  (v.  71,  p.  10^-32,  44-50).  The  report  of  a  com- 
mittee of  physicians  and  welfare  workers  to  the  welfare  managers'  group  of  the  club  en- 
titled "  'Recommended  standard  practice  on  medical  supervision  in  Detroit  plants  "  ap- 
peared in  the  same  issue  of  the  Annals  (p.  96—106).  A  study  of  87  mutual  benefit  or- 
ganizations, made  by  one  of  the  staff,  is-  out  of  print.  In  addition  to  the  above,  confi- 
dential reports  on  special  phases  of  management,  including  personnel,  were  sent  out  in 
multigraphed  form  to  members  of  the  club. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS/  EVc.V  l6l 


A  committee  of  the  conference  has  prepared  'f  lie 
tion,  which  has  been  approved  and  accepted  by  its  cooperating  organi- 
zations : 

Safety  standard  for  industrial  control  equipment  1921.  22  p.  (Intended  to 
be  used  in  conjunction  with  part  3  of  the  national  electrical  safety  code,  to* 
which  it  is  supplementary.) 

An  additional  section  of  this  standard  containing  detailed  rules 
for  special  application  to  elevators,  cranes,  printing  presses,  etc.,  is 
in  course  of  preparation. 

The  conference  is  also  the  sponsor  under  the  American  Engineer- 
ing Standards  Committee  of  a  code  on  electric  power  control,  but 
the  results  of  this  work  are  not  yet  published. 

EMPLOYMENT  MANAGERS'  ASSOCIATION,  BOSTON. 

Room  327,  6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass.  Ralph  G.  Wells, 
secretary. 

This  association,  the  first  of  its  kind  in  tlie  country,  was  organized 
in  the  fall  of  1912.  informal  meetings  having  been  held  for  some 
time  previously.  It  is  affiliated  with  the  Industrial  Relations  Asso- 
ciation of  America. 

The  object  of  the  organization  is  to  study  and  promote  the  various 
phases  of  industrial  relations  activities,  and  problems  of  relations 
with  employees  —  their  selection,  training,  and  management.  Sus- 
taining memberships  (annual  dues,  $50)  are  held  by  firms,  which 
JUT  entitled  to  designate  a.s  many  of  their  executives  as  they  desire 
to  participate  in  the  association's  activities.  In  addition  there  are 
a  few  associate  members  (annual  dues,  $25),  individuals  connected 
with  educational  institutions. 

Regular  moot  ings  are  held  once  a  month,  except  during  July  and 
August:  special  meetings  as  interest  in  some  special  subject  warrants. 
In  recent  years  groups  interested  in  particular  phases  of  industrial 
relations  work  (e.  <r..  employment-office  practice,  training  and  educa- 
tion, mutual  benefit  associations,  planning  and  research)  have  been 
formed  and  hold  meetings  more  or  less  regularly  for  the  more  in- 
tensive discussion  of  special  topics.  Occasionally  all-day  conferences 
on  special  subjects  have  been  held  and  analyses  have  been  prepared 
in  advance  to  focus  discussion  (e.  g.,  on  shop  committee  plans  in 
operation,  foremen's  meetings). 

A  file  of  information  regarding  industrial  relations  activities,  col- 
lected by  questionnaires  sent  to  its  members,  is  maintained  at  the 
office  of  the  association  to  enable  it  to  answer  as  fully  as  possible 
inquiries  from  members.  This  includes  data  regarding  wage  sys- 
tems and  other  financial  inducements,  employment,  training  and 
education,  working  conditions,  health,  special  service,  employees' 
activities,  and  personal  aid. 

A  report  from  the  Committee  on  Labor  Turnover  of  the  associa- 
tion in  1917  on  "  The  tabulating  of  labor  turnover  "  was  published 
in  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  Bulletin  No.  227  (p. 
50-55)  and  in  Annals  of  the  American  Academy  of  Political  and  So- 
cial Science,  May,  1917  (p.  33-43). 


-'III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

S  FOUNDATION. 

29   West   Thirty-ninth   Street,  New   York,  X.   Y.     Alfred   D. 
Flinn,  secretary. 

This  foundation  is  based  on  a  trust  fund  established  in  1914  by 
Pnited  Engineering  Society  from  a  gift  by  Ambrose  Swasey,  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  subsequently  increased  by  Mr.  Swasey  and 
other  donors  (present  amount,  $500,000).  The  income  from  this 
endowment  is  used  "for  the  furtherance  of  research  in  science  and 
in  engineering,  or  for  the  advancement  in  any  other  manner  of  the 
profession  of  engineering  and  the  good  of  mankind."  It  is  ad- 
ministered by  the  Engineering  Foundation  Board  composed  of 
members  from  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,-  American 
Institute  of  Mining  and  Metallurgical  Engineers,  American  So- 
ciety of  Mechanical  Engineers,  and  American  Institute  of  Electrical 
Engineers,  and  members  at  large.  The  board  is  a  department  of 
United  Engineering  Society  and  is  the  joint  agency  of  the  Founder 
Societies  named  for  the  stimulation,  direction  and  support  of 
research. 

Besides  researches  relating  to  the  physical  aspects  of  engineering, 
it  has  supported  a  limited  study  in  the  mental  hygiene  of  industry  by 
Dr.  E.  E.  Southard,  terminated  by  his  sudden  death  in  February, 
1920.  Three  papers  by  Dr.  Southard  resulting  from  this  study  have 
been  issued  by  Engineering  Foundation  in  its  reprint  series: 

No.  1.  The  mental  hygiene  of  industry:  A  movement,  that  particularly  con- 
cerns employment  managers.  (Eepr.  from  Industrial  Management,  Feb.,  1920.) 
24  p. 

No.  2.  Trade-unionism  and  temperament;  the  psychiatric  point  of  view  in 
industry.  (Repr.  from  Industrial  Management,  Apr.,  1920.)  18  p. 

No.  3.  The  modern  specialist  in  unrest;  a  place  for  the  psychiatrist  in  in- 
dustry. (Repr.  from  Industrial  Management,  June,  1920.)  18  p. 

(These  articles  were  also  published  in  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  4,  p.  43-64,  281- 
300,  550-563.) 

Miss  Mary  C.  Jarrett,  who  collaborated  with  Dr.  Southard,  pre- 
sented a  report  of  progress  on  the  work  before  the  Mental  Hygiene 
Division  of  the  National  Conference  of  Social  Work,  New  Orleans, 
April  17,  1920,  which  appeared  under  the  title  "  The  mental  hygiene 
of  industry"  in  Mental  Hygiene  (v.  4,  No.  4,  October,  1920). 

Engineering  Foundation  has  also  cooperated  with  National  Re- 
search Council  in  a  preliminary  examination  of  the  possibilities  for 
scientific  research  relating  to  personnel  in  industry,  resulting  in  the 
organization  of  the  Personnel  Research  Federation  (see  p.  143),  and 
is  considering  the  need  and  means  for  a  thorough  survey  of  in- 
dustrial education  and  training,  particularly  training  of  men  for 
and  in  industries  relating  to  the  various  branches  of  engineering. 

FEDERATED  AMERICAN  ENGINEERING  SOCIETIES. 

719  Fifteenth  Street,  NW.,  Washington,  D.  C.     L.  W.  Wallace, 

executive  secretary. 

Organized  June,  1920,  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  at  a  conference  of 
delegates  representing  66  engineering  societies,  after  two  years'  pre- 
liminary work  by  development  committees  and  a  joint  conference 
committee  of  the  Founder  Societies  (i.  e.,  the  mechanical,  civil,  elec- 
trical, and  mining  engineers).  The  object  of  the  organization  is: 

To  further  the  interests  of  the  public  through  the  use  of  technical  knowledge 
and  engineering  experience,  and  to  consider  and  act  upon  matters  common  to 
the  engineering  and  allied  technical  professions. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  103 

Its  membership  consists  of  national,  local,  State  and  regional 
engineering,  and  allied  technical  organizations  and  affiliations.  The 
management  is  vested  in  a  body  known  as  the  American  Engineering 
Council 13  and  its  executive  board.  Each  constituent  society  is  en- 
titled to  one  representative  on  the  American  Engineering  Council 
for  a  membership  of  from  100  to  1,000  engineers,  and  one  additional 
representative  for  every  additional  1,000  members  or  major  fraction 
thereof.  Each  national  society  represented  on  the  council  contributes 
annually  $1.50  per  member  and  each  local,  State,  or  regional  organiza- 
tion $1  per  member. 

COMMITTEE  ON  ELIMINATION  OF  WASTE  IN  INDUSTRY. — L.  W.  Wal- 
lace, vice  chairman.  This  committee,  appointed  January  12,  1921, 
has  undertaken  an  "Assay  of  waste  "  to  ascertain  primarily  the  waste 
of  human  effort  in  production,  and  to  suggest  means  of  removing  the 
cause  of  such  waste.  Field  studies  have  been  carried  on  in  nine  dif- 
ferent industries,  viz :  Housing  and  building  trades,  transportation, 
bituminous  coal  mining,  ready-made  men's  clothing,  printing,  shoes, 
rubber,  metal  trades,  and  textiles,  covering  about  200  factories;  and 
at  Wom'strr,  Mass.,  a  regional  assay  covering  40  industries  was 
made.  A  schedule  of  "  Guide  questions  for  field  workers,"  pre- 
<1  by  J.  H.  Williams  and  C.  E.  Knoeppel,  was  issued  in  mime- 
ographed form  March,  1921,  to  standardize  the  collection  of  data. 
Section  K  (organization)  of  this  questionnaire  deals  in  part  with  the 
following  topics:  Personnel  records,  procedure  of  employment,  un- 
employment and  efforts  to  overcome  seasonal  fluctuation,  records  of 
discharges  and  lay-offs,  practice  of  temporary  shut  downs,  investi- 
gation of  quits,  labor  turnover,  determination  of  wage  scale,  hours 
of  labor,  methods  of  shop  representation,  labor  difficulties  due  to 
strikes,  lockouts,  and  stoppages,  accidents,  safety,  and  welfare  work. 
A  summary  of  tlu'  committee's  findings  was  issued  in  August  and  the 
completed  report  on  the  results  of  this  investigation  was  published 
in  October.  19-21  (McGraw-Hill  Co.)  under  the  title  "Waste  in  in- 
dustry" (402  p.). 

GRINDING     WHEEL    MANUFACTURERS'     ASSOCIATION     OF     THE 
UNITED  STATES  AND  CANADA. 

Dayton,  Ohio.    Frank  R.  Henry,  secretary. 

This  association  (formerly  Abrasive  Wheel  Manufacturers)  is 
joint  sponsor  for  the  fourth  and  revised  edition  of  the  "  Safety  code 
for  the  use.  care,  and  protection  of  abrasive  wheels"  now  being  pre- 
pared under  the  auspices  and  rules  of  procedure  of  the  American 
Engineering  Standards  Committee.  The  first  three  editions  of  this 
rode  were  issued  by  the  association  independently.  The  original  issue 
wjis  based  on  the  report  of  a  special  committee  appointed  by  the  Na- 
tional Machine  Tool  Builders  Association  to  consider  safety  in  con- 
nection with  abrasive  wheels  and  grinding  machines  and  a  tentative 

.:,'inc<u'ing  Council,  which  this  new  Ixuly  supersedes,  went  out  of  existence  Dec. 
31,  19-0.  It  was  established  in  the  spring  of  1917  for  a  similar  purpose  as  a  department 
of  Tinted  Engineering  Society  and  consisted  of  five  representatives  each  from  the  four 
Founder  Societies,  four  trustees  of  United  Engineering  Society,  and  one  representative 
each  from  American  Society  1'or  Testing  Materials  and  American  Railway  Engineering 
Association,  which  became  members  February,  1919,  and  April,  1920,  respectively.  Dur- 
ing the  war  period  it  A\as  actively  engaged  in  organizing  engineering  ability  for  the- 
prosecution  of  the  war.  Its  Committee  on  Classification  and  Compensation  of  Engineers, 
organized  April,  1919,  conducted  an  investigation  concerning  engineers  in  Federal,  State, 
ai;d  municipal  services  ai'd  prepared  a  standard  classification  (for  purposes  of  compensa- 
tion) and  a  proposal  schedule  of  salaries  for  engineers  in  Government  employment  (pub- 
lished .January,  19L'o.  in  abbreviated  form  by  the  Founder  Societies  and  the  technical  jour- 
nals, e.  g.,  Engineering  News  Record). 


104  III.    NOXOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

report  of  a  special  committee  appointed  by  the  State  of  Pennsylvania 
to  draft  laws  pertaining  to  grinding  and  polishing.  The  third  edi- 
tion bears  the  approval  of  the  Safety  Committee  of  the  National 
Machine  Tool  Builders'  Association,  which  cooperated  with  the 
Safety  Committee  of  this  association  in  conducting  the  tests  and  com- 
piling the  tables. 

HOUGHTON  RESEARCH  STAFF. 

Third,  American,  and  Somerset  Streets,  Philadelphia,  Pa.    E.  F. 

Houghton  &  Co. 

With  the  aid  of  outside  specialists  in  bacteriology  and  dermatology 
this  staff  has  recently  completed  an  investigation  of  the  "  Causes  of 
skin  sores  and  boils  among  metal  workers  "  and  the  results  were  pub- 
lished in  1920  in  a  pamphlet  (51  p.),  obtainable  from  the  above  firm. 

ILLUMINATING  ENGINEERING  SOCIETY. 

29  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
^  Organized  January  10,  1906,  for  the  advancement  and  dissemina- 
tion of  theoretical  and  practical  knowledge  of  the  science  and  art  of 
illumination.  Sections  have  been  organized  in  Chicago,  New  Eng- 
land, New  York,  Philadelphia;  chapters  for  Cleveland  and  San 
Francisco  Bay  cities. 

The  Transactions,  published  monthly,  include  papers  on  eye  fa- 
tigue, illumination  and  eye  strain,  factory  lighting,  glare,  safety  fea- 
tures of  industrial  lig-hting,  etc.  The  1915  volume  contains  a  number 
of  reports  by  a  committee  on  the  glare  from  reflecting  surfaces,  which 
began  its  work  in  1912. 

COMMITTEE  ON  LIGHTING  LEGISLATION. — This  standing  committee 
was  first  appointed  in  1913.  In  cooperation  with  a  special  commit- 
tee on  factory  lighting  it  prepared  in  1915  the  code  of  lighting  fac- 
tories, mills,  and  other  work  places,  printed  with  explanatory  rules 
and  notes  in  the  society's  Transactions  (v.  10,  p.  606-641).  This  code 
was  essentially  a  safety  code  in  that  it  stipulated  the  minimum  re- 
quirements for  proper  illumination  of  dangerous  places  about  ma- 
chinery, etc.  It  also  contained  data  and  recommendations  for  in- 
stallations designed  to  avoid  glare  and  undue  strain  upon  the  eyes. 
It  was  amended  in  1917  and  has  served  as  the  basis  for  the  industrial 
lighting  laws,  rules  and  regulations  now  in  force  in  Pennsyvania, 
New  Jersey,  New  York,  Wisconsin,  Oregon,  California,  and  Ohio. 

The  code  is  now  being  revised  under  the  auspices  and  rules  of  pro- 
cedure of  the  American  Engineering  Standards  Committee,  the 
sponsorship  for  the  industrial  lighting  code  having  been  assigned 
to  the  Illuminating.  Engineering  Society,  which  is  represented  by 
this  committee.  The  revisions  thus  far  proposed  are  in  the  nature 
of  additions  and  modifications  arising  out  of  advances  in  the  art  and 
experience  gained  in  the  operation  and  enforcement  of  the  State  codes. 

INDUSTRIAL  INFORMATION  SERVICE. 

Barristers'  Hall,  Boston,  Mass.     W.  L.  Stoddard,  secretary. 
Organized  in  1920  as  "  a  clearing  house  for  accurate  current  infor- 
mation  about   labor   in   industrial    and    mercantile    establishments, 
transportation,  agriculture,  and  clerical  and  professional  service." 

Since  March  18,  1920,  it  has  issued  to  clients  (subscribing  $25  a 
year)  loose-leaf  weekly  reports,  entitled  "The  industrial  information 
which  consist  largely  of  analyses  and  digests  of  published 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  105 

data,  but  also  contain  short  studies  relating  to  personnel  matters 
made  by  the  staff  or  by  the  Bureau  of  Personnel  Administration 
(see  p;  89),  whose  director  heads  the  New  York  office  of  the  service 
(17  West  Forty-seventh  Street).  A  supplementary  service  letter  is 
also  sent  to  clients  subscribing  $100. 

Extended  investigations  are  made  for  clients,  subject  to  appro- 
priate charges.  In  the  early  part  of  1921  several  studies  on  em- 
ployment, unemployment,  strikes  and  lockouts,  employee  representa- 
tion, and  methods  of  wage  payment  were  made  for  the  Committee 
on  Elimination  of  Waste  of  the  Federated  American  Engineering 
Societies.  (See  p.  103.) 

INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS  ASSOCIATION  OF  AMERICA. 

G71  Broad  Street,  Newark,  X.  J.  E.  A.  Shay,  executive  secretary. 
Organized  ns  the  National  Association  of  Employment  Managers 
at  a  convention  of  employment  and  other  executives  held  in  Rochester. 
N.  Y..  May.  1918;  three  such  conferences  having  been  held  prior  to 
this,  in  Minneapolis  (January,  1916),  Boston  (May,  1916),  and  Phila- 
delphia (April,  1917). 14  Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  New  Jersey 
in  February,  I'.'L'O:  nairn*  changed  to  Industrial  Relations  Association 
of  America,  March  1.  1920. 

The  purpose  «»f  the  organization  is  to  study  and  promote  the  various 
phases  of  industrial  relations  activities  and  to  encourage  the  organi- 
zation of  and  give  assistance  to  local  organizations  of  similar  nature 
through  the  maintenance  of  central  administrative  offices  and  by 
such  other  means  as  the  board  of  directors  may  determine. 

Then.-  are  at  present  34  group  members  (annual  dues : 15  $5  per  mem- 
U-r  for  groups  having  not  more  than  75  members,  with  a  minimum 
of  $100  and  si  maximum  of  $300;  $4  per  member  for  groups  having 
76  or  more  members).     These  groups  are  the  affiliated  local  organi- 
zations listed  below,  with  a  membership  representing  in  the  aggre- 
§aU'  approximately  '2,000  concerns.    In  addition,  there  are  about  120 
usiness  members  (concerns  so  located  geographically  that  they  can 
not  join  a  local  group :  dues,  $25  a  year)   and  about  120  associate 
members  (interested  persons  not  directly  engaged  in  industrial  re- 
lations work:  dues.  S10  >,\  year). 

Annual  conventions  are  held  at  time  and  place  determined  by  the 
board  of  directors  (first  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  May  21-23,  1919;  second 
at  Chicago,  111..  May  19-21,  1920;  third  to  be  held  at  New  York,  Nov. 
1-4,  1921).  The  attendance  at  the  1920  convention  was  about  2,500. 
In  addition  to  the  general  sessions,  there  are  round-table  discussions 
of  special  topics  and  sectional  meetings  of  those  belonging  to  particu- 
lar groups  of  industrial  or  commercial  concerns.  Sections  have  been 
organized  as  follows :  Banks,  Chemical  industries,  Department  stores, 
Lumber.  Metal  trades.  Packing  industries,  Public  utilities,  Railroads, 
Steel  industries.  At  the  1920  convention  subject  meetings  were  held 
on  Americanization,  apprentice  training,  benefit,  thrift  and  budget, 
cooperative  stores,  coordination  with  educational  institutions,  de- 
veloping the  industrial  relations  staff,  developing  understudies,  de- 
velopment of  plant  spirit,  employment  office  methods,  group  in- 
surance, housing,  industrial  relations  department  costs,  introducing 

14  Proceedings  of  these  four  conferences  were  published  as  Bulletins  100,  202,  227,  247, 
of  the  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 

16  A  proposal  to  raise  the  dues  to  $10  a  year  per  member  is  under  consideration. 


106  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

the  new  worker,  job  specifications  and  job  analysis,  mental  tests, 
periodic  rating,  personal  aid  to  workers,  plant  papers,  problems  of 
industries  employing  under  500,  radicalism,  recreation,  relations 
of  employment  office  and  foremen,  restaurants,  shop  and  works  com- 
mittees, shortage  of  labor,  stock  purchase,  vacations,  wage  levels 
and  women.  The  Proceedings  of  the  1919  and  1920  conventions  have 
been  published  (two  volumes,  $5  each). 

In  October  and  December,  1919,  and  February,  1920,  three  one-day 
conferences  on  special  subjects  were  held,  two  in  New  York  and  one 
in  Chicago.  The  minutes  of  the  first  two  of  these  bimonthly  con- 
ferences have  been  published  under  the  titles  "  Training  the  super- 
visory force"  and  "Relationships  and  adjustments  between  employ- 
ers and  employed"  respectively  ($2  per  volume).  District  confer- 
ences were  started  early  in  1921,  the  first  being  held  at  Springfield, 
Mass.,  on  January  7. 

Since  January,  1919,  the  association  has  issued  a  monthly  periodi- 
cal. Personnel,  devoted  entirely  to  subjects  in  the  various  branches 
of  industrial  relations  and  containing  news  notes  of  the  local  asso- 
ciations, etc.  It  is  sent  to  all  members. 

A  number  of  special  investigations  have  been  made  by  question- 
naires sent  out  by  the  association  to  its  members.  A  digest  of  the 
material  received  has  been  furnished  to  members  either  in  pam- 
phlet form,  or  in  the  columns  of  Personnel.  The  subjects  covered 
(and  the  issues*  of  Personnel  containing  brief  summaries  of  the  re- 
sults) are  as  follows:  National  employment  service  (questionnaire 
with  v.  1,  No.  3,  March,  1919;  results  in  v.  1,  No.  8,  August,  1919)  ; 
Americanization — effects  of  illiteracy  and  inability  to  understand 
English  on  turnover,  earnings,  industrial  unrest,  production,  and 
accidents  (questionnaire  with  v.  1,  No.  7,  July,  1919;  results  in  v.  1, 
No.  10,  October,  1919)  ;  Training  the  supervisory  force  (v.  2,  No.  1, 
January.  1920)  ;  Extent  and  cost  of  personnel  activities  (v.  2,  No.  3, 
March/  1920)  ;  Vacations  (v.  2,  No.  6,  June,  1920)  ;  Supervisory 
force  salaries ;  Introducing  the  new  worker ;  How  successful  employ- 
ment offices  are  started.  A  digest  of  information  regarding  person- 
nel work  in  public  utility  corporations  in  the  United  States  and 
Canada  obtained  by  questionnaire  sent  out  by  the  Public  Utility 
Section  is  published  in  v.  2,  No.  10,  October,  1920. 

The  administrative  office  staff  conducts  an  information  service  for 
members  and  reports  that  it  has  received  and  answered  nearly 
10,000  inquiries  on  subjects  connected  with  industrial  relations  dur- 
ing the  past  two  years. 

Affiliated  firoup*  and  their  secretaries. 

Employment  Managers'  Branch,  Atlantic  Coast  Shipbuilders  Association,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Clarence  Samuel  King,  Atlantic  Coast  Shipbuilders  Association,  1701  Wal- 
nut Street. 
Baltimore  Council,  Industrial  Relations  Association  of  America,  Baltimore,  Md. 

J.  Allison  Muir,  General  Electric  Co. 
Employment  Managers'  Association,  Boston,  Mass,  (see  p.  101). 

Ralph  G.  Wells,  room  327,  6  Beacon  Street. 

Bridgeport  Council,  Industrial  Relations  Association  of  America,  Bridgeport, 
Conn. 

C.  S.  Smith,  Manning,  Maxwell  &  Moore  (Inc.). 

Buffalo  Council,  Industrial  Relations  Association  of  America,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
E.  Earle  Axtell,  Masonic  Service  Bureau. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  107 

Stark  County  Employment  Managers'  School,  Canton,  Ohio. 

J.  Howard   Renshaw,  17  Ervin  Block. 
Chicago  Council,  Industrial  Relations  Association  of  America,  Chicago,  III. 

F.  C.  W.  Parker,  Central  Y.  M.  C,  A.,  19  South  LaSalle  Street. 
Cincinnati  Council,   Industrial   Relations   Association   of  America,   Cincinnati, 

Ohio. 

Mabel  B.  Wallace,  George  G.  Strietmann's  Sons  Co. 

Employment  Managers  Group,  Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Merchants  Board, 
Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

S.  It.  Mason,  Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Employment   Managers'   Association,  Dayton,   Ohio. 

J.  D.   I>ouglas,  Dayton   Malleable  Iron   Co. 
Detroit  Employment  Man,-:gers'  Club,  Detroit,  Mich. 

irge  W.  Grant,  Employers'  Association,  1319  Book  Building. 
East  Side  Employment  Managers'  Association,  East  St.  Louis,  111. 

Ross  Bowles.  East  Side  Employers'  Association,  Murphy  Building. 
Employment  Managers'  Club.   Hamilton,  Ohio. 

Joseph  M.  Butcher.  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Indianapolis    Council,    Industrial    Relations    Association    of    America,    Indian- 
apolis, Ind. 

Isabel  N.  Drnmmond,  Indianapolis  Glove  Co. 

.Jersey  City  Council,  Industrial   Relations  Association   of  America,  Jersey  City, 
N.  J. 

E.  George  Schaefer,  Jersey  City  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Lansing  Employment  Managers'  Association,  Lansing.  Mich. 

An  bur  N.  A  very,  New-Way  Motor  { 1<». 
Employment  Mamr.  iat:on,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

c.    Benjamin   Bemis.   Southern   California  Telephone  Co. 
Employment   Mai:  -ociation,  Meriden,  Conn. 

G.  l\   Croasdale,  Cm"!-.  .  f i<-ut  Telephone  &  Electric  Co. 

Employment    Mann,  ion,    .Manufacturing   Club   of  Minneapolis,    Minne- 

apolis, Minn. 

•\i>  Caswell,  A'.'iiiifacturers'  Club. 
Empio\  nient    Managers'  Club,  Tri-City   Manufacturers'   Association,  Moline,   111. 

Edgar  R.  Bhnlel,  Tri-City  Manufacturers'  Association. 
Newark  Council.  Industrial  Relations   '  »n  of  America.  Newark,  N.  J. 

M.  A.  Clark.  K.  !    uu  Pont  de  Nemours  &  Co.   (Inc.),  Arlington,  N.  J. 
Tiv  Executives'  ciub  of  New  Y<.<  fork  City. 

Oscar  M.  Miller,  Siandard  Oil  Co.,  20  Broadway. 
Employment   Managers'  Croup.  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Niagara  Falls,  N.  V. 

R.    i  i    Falls  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Philadelphia  Association  for  the  Di.-cussion  of  Employment  Problems,  Philadel- 
phia. Pa. 

Joseph  II.  \ViMits.  Wharton  School,  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Employment    Managers'    Association    of   the    Employers1    Association    of    Pitts- 
burgh. Pittsburgh.  Pa. 

'  .  Moivland,  Employers'  Association. 
Employment    Managers'  Club,  Pontiac,  Mich. 

K.  McVittie.   Standard    Paris  Co 
Oregon  Council,  Industrial  Relations  Association  of  America,  Portland,  Oreg. 

Raymond   Van  Valin,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Industrial  Relations  Association  of  Berks  Comity,  Heading,  Pa. 

P.  B.  Weidner,  Manufacturers'  Association. 

Employment    and    Service   Group,    Industrial    Management    Council,    Rochester 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Eliott  Frost,  Rochester  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Industrial  Relations  Association  of  California,  San  Francisco.  Calif. 

Address:  4.11  Flood  Building.  Since  August,  1921,  this  association  has 
published  a  mimeographed  monthly,  Industrial  Relations;  Exchange 
(Vining  T.  Fisher,  editor). 

St.   Louis   District   Council.   Industrial  Relations  Association   of  America,   St. 
Louis,  Mo. 

C.  n.  Weiser,  Southwestern  Bell  Telephone  System. 
Employment   Managers'  Council,  St.  Paul  Association,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Theodore  Sander,  jr.,  Athletic  Club  Building. 

Seattle  Council.  Industrial   Relations  Association  of  America,  Seattle,  Wash. 
Nina  F.  Winn,  Bemis  Bros.  Bag  Co. 


108  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

Employment  Managers'  Association  of  St.  Joseph  County,  South  Bend,  Incl. 

A.  M.  Taylor,  Indiana  Bell  Telephone  Co. 
Employment  Managers'  Association,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Charles   V.  1  >crrick,  American   Bosch  Magneto  Co. 
Industrial  Relations  Association  of  Toledo,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Allan  M.  Kurotlf,  501  Nasby  Building. 

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Employment  Mana.uvrs'  Association,  Auburn.  N.  Y. 

C.  W.  Storke,  Employers'  Association. 
Personnel  Managers'  Club,  Brooklyn  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Brooklyn,  N.  V. 

G.  E.  Scott,  Brooklyn  Chamber  of  Commerce,  32  Court  Street. 
Industrial  Relations  Association  of  Elmira  District,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

Jesse  C.  Shepard,  Shepard  Electric  Crane  &  Hoist  Co.,  Montonr  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Employment  Managers'  Association,  Erie,  Pa. 

J.  C.  Dalzell,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Employment  Executives'  Club,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Philip  J.  Sheriden,  Pratt  &  Cady  Co.  (Inc.). 
Employment  Managers'  Council,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Miss  M.  E.  Brian.  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co. 
Lawrence  Industrial  Relations  Club,  Lawrence,  Mass. 

G.  W.  Folk,  Y.  M.  C.  A, 

Employment    Manager    Group,    New    Hampshire    Manufacturers'    Association, 
Manchester,  N.  H. 

James  Haithwuite,  Stark  Mills. 
Milwaukee  Employment  Managers'  Association,  Mihyaukoe.  Wis. 

L.  J.  Parrish,  Wisconsin  Motor  Manufacturing  Co. 
Muskegon  Employment  Managers'  Association,  Muskegon,  Mich. 

W.  W.  Poole,  Union  National  Bank  Building. 
Industrial  Relations  Council,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Richard  M.  Thompson,  United  States  Rubber  Co. 
Employment  Executives'  Club  of  Louisiana,  New  Orleans,  La. 

A.  S.  Boisfontaine,  Southern  Pine  Association. 
Personnel  Workers'  Association,  New  York  City. 

Miss  Christine  M.  Ayars,  McElwain,  Morse  &  Rogers,   Duane  Street. 
Blackstone  Valley  Employment  Managers'  Association,  Pawtucket,  R.   I. 

E.  E.,  Wynn,  D.  Goff  &  Sons. 
Employment  Managers'  Club,  Peoria,  111. 

H.  S.  Taes,  Peoria,  111. 
Employment  Managers'  Association  of  Berkshire  County,  Pittstield,  Mass. 

Myles  W.  Illiiigsworth,  73  North  Street. 
Rhode  Island  Industrial  Relations  Association,  Providence,  R.  I. 

George  S.  Wallace,  Universal  Winding  Co. 
Personnel  Managers'  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Borough  of  Queens,  N.  Y. 

Frank  E.   Breyfogle,   Chamber   of  Commerce,   Bridge   Plaza,    Borough   of 

Queens.  N..  Y. 
Employment  Managers'  Club,  Saginaw,  Mich. 

E.  F.  Vogt,  Saginaw  Products  Co. 
Employment  Executives'  Club  of  the  St.  Louis  District,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

O.  Y.  Sly,  Employers'  Association,  302  Security  Building. 

Executives'    Club,    Springfield    Branch,    National    Metal    Trades    Association, 
Springfield,  Mass. 

A.  R.  Tuiloch,  National  Metal  Trades  Association,  Springfield,  Mass. 
Employment  Managers'  Association,  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 

C.  I..  Nicholson,  Pass  &  Seymour  (Inc.). 
Industrial  Relations  Association  of  Toronto,  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada. 

G.  W.  Allen,  Consumers'  Gas  Co. 
Industrial  Relations  Association  of  West  Virginia.  Wheeling.  W.   Va. 

Jos.  A.  Meagher.  Employers'  Association,  300  Schenk  Building. 

INSTITUTE  FOR  CRIPPLED  AND  DISABLED  MEN. 

101  East  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York.  N.  Y.    J.  C.  Faries, 

director. 

Established  by  the  American  Red  Cross  in  1917  as  the  Red  Cross 
Institute  for  Crippled  and  Disabled  Men  ;  in  November,  1919,  turned 


ASSOCIATIONS,,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  109 

over  to  a  board  of  trustees  to  be  continued  as  a  private  philanthropic 
institution  and  name  changed  to  present  form;  incorporated  Janu- 
ary 13,  1920. 

Its  purpose  is,  primarily,  to  help  men  who,  through  the  loss  of  one 
or  more  limbs  or  the  impairment  of  their  use,  find  difficulty  in  earn- 
ing their  living.  It  does  not  undertake  medical  or  surgical  treatment. 

As  means  appropriate  to  its  aim  it  maintains  a  shop  for  the  manu- 
facture of  artificial  limbs  and  appliances,  a  training  school  for  giving 
instruction  in  a  variety  of  trades,  and  an  employment  bureau  for 
finding  suitable  occupations  for  handicapped  men.  A  report  of  the 
activities  of  the  institute,  by  the  director,  entitled  "  Three  years  of 
work  for  handicapped  men  "  (96  p.)  published  July,  1920,  covers 
these  three  branches  of  its  work  and  also  contains  a  list  of  its  publi- 
cations. 

The  results  of  research  undertaken  by  the  institute  have  been  pub- 
lished in  iir>  monographs,  forming  Publications,  Series  I,  Nos.  1-16; 
Series  II,  Xos.  !-•!>.  Of  these.  1*J  are  descriptive  of  the  work  done- 
in  foreign  countries  for  the  rehabilitation  of  disabled  soldiers;  the 
rest  are  inn  inly  studies  of  the  vocational  possibilities  for  the  handi- 
capped in  this  country. 

Preliminary  to  starting  the  work  of  the  institute,  an  investigation 
was  made  in  the  summer  of  1917  into  the  experiences  of  cripples  in 
civil  life  in  readjusting  themselves  to  industry  after  injury.  The  re- 
sults are  given  in : 

Series  I,  No.  '2.  The  economic  consequences  of  physical  disability;  a  case 
study  of  civilian  cripples  in  New  York  City.  By  J.  C.  Faries.  1918.  11  p. 

In  the  early  part  of  1918  the  Department  of  Industrial  Survey  of 
the  institute  undertook  n  survey  of  the  chief  industries  of  New  York 
City  to  locate  the  jobs  in  which  the  work  could  be  performed  by 
<  ripples.  The  first  report  was  issued  as: 

Series  I.  No.  HI.  opportunities  lor  the  employment  of  disabled  men;  pre- 
liminary survey  of  the  piano,  leather,  rubber,  paper  goods,  shoe,  sheet-metal 
uocxls.  candy,  drug  and  <-heinieal.  cigar,  silk,  celluloid,  optical  goods,  and  motion- 
j.i.-nuv  industries.  1918.  33  p. 

A  study  supplementary  to  this  was  prepared  for  publication  in  the 
American  Journal  of  Care  for  Cripples,  but  owing  to  the  suspension 
of  that  magazine  was  never  printed.  A  set  of  page  proofs  is  on  file 
in  the  institute  library,  which  also  has  typewritten  manuscripts  of 
studies  of  the  toy  industry,  woodworking,  knit  goods,  machine  trades, 
fur  industry,  photo-engraving,  and  banjo  and  drum  trades,  not  in- 
cluded in  the  two  foregoing  compilations. 

In  Series  II  the  institute  has  published  five  studies  made  by  the 
Bureau  of  Vocational  Guidance.  Harvard  University,  viz: 

No.  4.  Employment  opportunities  for  handicapped  men  in  the  coppersmithing 
trade.  By  Bert  .7.  M orris.  1918. 

No.  6.  Employment  opportunities  for  handicapped  men  in  the  optical-goods 
industry.  By  Bert  J.  Morris.  1919. 

No.  7.  Opportunities  for  handicapped  men  in  the  brush  industry.  By  Charles 
H.  Panll.  1919. 

No.  8.  Opportunities  for  handicapped  men  in  the  shoe  industry.  By  Fred- 
erick J.  Allen.  1919. 

No.  9.  Opportunities  for  handicapped  men  in  the  rubber  industry.  By  B.  J. 
Morris  and  C.  H.  Paull.  1919. 

Placement  technique  in  the  employment  work  of  the  institute  is 
the  subject  of  Series  I,  No.  9,  by  Miss  Gertrude  Stein;  and  the  results 


110  III.    NONWr'K'IAL,   AGENiMKS. 

of  experimental  work  on  prosthetic  appliances  are  given  in  Series 
1I?  No.  2,  entitled,  "  Principles  of  design  and  construction  of  arti- 
ficial legs,"  by  Philip  Wilson. 

The  institute  'has  also  issued  miscellaneous  special  publications 
and.  reprints  and  translations  of  addresses  of  delegates  at  the  Inter- 
national Conference  on  Rehabilitation  of  the  Disabled,  held  March, 
1919,  in  New  York  City. 

INSTITUTE  FOR  GOVERNMENT  RESEARCH. 

818  Connecticut  Avenue,  XW.,  Washington,  D.  C.  W.  F.  Wil- 
loughby,  director. 

The  purpose  of  this  institute,  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the 
District  of  Columbia  March  16,  1916,  is  to  conduct  scientific  investi- 
gations into  the  theory  and  practice  of  governmental  administration, 
including  the  conditions  affecting  the  efficiency  and  welfare  of  gov- 
ernmental officers  and  employees,  and  perform  such  services  as  may 
tend  to  the  development  and  application  of  the  principles  of  efficiency 
in  governmental  administration. 

It  is  publishing  the  results  of  its  researches  in  two  series  of  volumes 
under  the  general  titles  "  Principles  of  administration  "  and  "  Studies 
in  administration,"  respectively.  The  former  series  attempts  to  de- 
termine and  make  known  the  most  approved  principles  of  adminis- 
tration ;  the  latter  consists  of  detailed  and  critical  studies  of  existing 
systems  in  the  United  States  or  foreign  countries.  Personnel  admin- 
istration is  the  subject  of  two  contributions,  one  in  each  series,  which 
have  been  completed  and  are  now  in  press : 

Principles  of  public  personnel  administration.     By  Arthur  W.  Procter. 
The  Federal  service:  A  study  of  the  system  of  personnel  administration  of 
the  United  States  Government.     By  Lewis  Mayers. 

The  following  studies  of  special  personnel  problems  have  already 
been  published  for  the  institute  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York: 

Principles  governing  the  retirement  of  public  employees.  By  Lewis  Merriam. 
1918.  462  p. 

Teachers'  pension  systems  in  the  United  States.  By  Paul  Studensky.  1920. 
460  p. 

Information  about  the  work  of  the  institute  in  other  lines  of  gov- 
ernmental research  is  given  in  a  pamphlet  entitled  "The  Institute 
for  Government  Research;  its  organization,  work  arid  publications," 
issued  June,  1920. 

INSTITUTE  OF  MAKERS  OF  EXPLOSIVES. 

103  Park  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y.  C.  Stewart  Comeaux,  sec- 
retary. 

A  safety  code  for  the  manufacture  and  plant  handling  of  explosives 
is  in  course  of  preparation  by  a  special  committee.  The  institute  has 
been  approved  as  sponsor  for  the  explosives  code  in  the  program  of 
the  American  Engineering  Standards  Committee.  (See  p.  72.) 

Members  make  reports  to  the  institute  on  explosions  occurring  in 
their  plants  and  on  any  unusual  occurrence  or  condition  which  might 
have  resulted  in  an  explosion  or  fire.  The  causes  are  investigated 
and  recommendations  made  with  a  view  to  preventing  similar  oc- 
currences. The  Committee  on  Standardization  (C.  A.  Patterson, 
E.  I.  du  Pont  de  Nemours  &  Co.,  Wilmington,  Del.,  chairman)  is 
concerned  with  safety  problems  in  the  industry,  other  than  those 
indicated  above. 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  Ill 

INTERNATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF  GARMENT  MANUFACTURERS. 

&>0  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

An  association  of  450  firms  in  the  United  States  and  Canada 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  men's  or  women's  clothing  by  power 
machines. 

BUREAU  OF  FACTOIIY  PRACTICE  AND  INDUSTRIAL,  RELATIONS. — Arthur 
Schwab,  director.  Established  in  June,  1919,  and  maintained  by  a 
group  of  about  80  members,  each  contributing  $100  a  year,  for  em- 
ploying cooperatively  the  services  of  an  industrial  engineer  (at 
present  on  part  time)  to  conduct  research  and  furnish  information 
regarding  manufacturing  experience.  Membership  is  not  limited  to 
the  association. 

To  date,  the  bureau  has  made  ITT  special  inquiries  by  questionnaire 
and  has  reported  the  results  in  mimeographed  form  to  its  members. 
These  Iwvo  mainly  dealt  with  matters  of  factory  practice,  cost 
accounting,  etc.,  but  the  list  includes  also  the  following  personnel 
topics:  No.  103,  Foreladies;  No.  128,  Overtime;  No.  135,  Method  of 
paying  learners;  No.  149,  Vacations  to  factory  workers;  No.  152, 
Bonus  systems  for  executives;  No.  155,  "Wage  reductions;  No.  158, 
Kmployee  representation  plan;  No.  166,  Average  daily  output  for 
cutters — men's  shirts;  No.  168,  Average  daily  output  for  joiners — 
men's  shirts;  No.  ITT  (in  preparation),  Reduction  in  welfare  and 
service  work. 

A  more  extensive  study  of  "  Learners  in  the  garment  trades,"  deal- 
ing with  the  methods  of  obtaining,  instructing,  and  retaining  learners 
in  the  li'arment  trades,  was  printed  as  Special  Report  No.  1,  Novem- 
ber, 1919  (49  p.). 

A  series  of  charts  designated  as  "  Executive's  control  charts,"  with 
mimeographed  text  to  accompany  them,  was  issued  June  1,  1921,  as 
-is  of  educational  plans  for  foremen.  • 

A  standardized  application  blank  devised  by  the  bureau  for  use 
in  the  employment  offices  of  garment  factories  was  issued  in  blue- 
print form  February,  1921. 

INTERNATIONAL      ASSOCIATION      OF     INDUSTRIAL     ACCIDENT 

BOARDS  AND  COMMISSIONS. 

Ethelbert  Stewart,  Tnited  States  Commissioner  of  Labor  Sta- 
tistics, secretary- treasurer. 

Organized  as  the  'National  Association  of  Industrial  Accident 
Boards  and  Commissions  at  the  first  national  conference  of  industrial 
accident  boards  and  commissions  held  at  Lansing,  Mich.,  in  1914; 
present  name  adopted  in  1916. 

This  association  holds  meetings  once  a  year  (now  usually  in  Sep- 
tember), or  oftener,  for  the  purpose  of  bringing  together  the  officials 
charged  with  the  duty  of  administering  the  workmen's  compensa- 
tion laws  of  the  United  States  and  Canada  to  consider,  and,  so  far 
as  possible,  to  agree  on  standardizing  (a)  ways  of  cutting  down 
accidents;  (b)  medical,  surgical,  and  hospital  treatment  for  injured 
workers;  (c)  means  for  the  reeducation  of  injured  workmen  and 
their  restoration  to  industry;  (d)  methods  of  computing:  industrial 
accident  and  sickness  insurance  costs;  (e)  practices  in  administering 
compensation  laws;  (f)  extensions  and  improvements  in  workmen's 
compensation  legislation;  and  (g)  reports  and  tabulations  of  in- 
dustrial accidents  and  illnesses. 


•    112  III.    NONOFFICIAI.   AGENCIES. 

Each  State  of  the  United  States  and  each  Province  of  Canada 
having  a  workmen's  compensation  law,  United  States  Employees' 
Compensation  Commission,  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 
and  the  Department  of  Labor  of  Canada,  are  entitled  to  active  mem- 
bership (annual  dues,  $50,  with  certain  exceptions).  Organizations 
and  individuals  actively  interested  in  any  phase  of  workmen's  com- 
pensation or  social  insurance  may  be  admitted  to  associate  member- 
ship (annual  clues,  $10). 

The  proceedings  of  the  1914  conference  at  which  the  association 
was  organized  were  printed  in  National  Compensation  Journal  (v.  1, 
No.  5),  May,  1914;  those  of  a  special  meeting  at  Chicago,  January, 
1915,  and  the  second  annual  conference  at  Seattle,  October,  1915,  were 
published  by  the  association.  Since  then  the  United  States  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics  has  issued  the  proceedings  of  the  annual  meetings 
in  its  Bulletin  series,  viz :  Third,  Columbus,  1916,  Bulletin  No.  210 ; 
fourth,  Boston,  1917,  Bulletin  No.  248;  fifth,  Madison,  1918,  Bulletin 
No.  264 ;  sixth,  Toronto,  1919,  Bulletin  No.  273 ;  seventh,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Bulletin  No.  281.  Papers  and  discussions  on  all  of  the  sub- 
jects indicated  in  the  above  statement  of  the  association's  purpose 
are  contained  in  these  publications, 

The  Proceedings  of  the  conference  on  social  insurance  called  by 
this  association  and  held  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  December  5-9,  1916, 
were  published  as  Bulletin  No.  212  of  the  United  States  Bureau  of 
Labor  Statistics.  In  addition  to  papers  and  discussions  on  work- 
men's compensation  and  industrial  insurance  legislation  this  volume 
contains  material  on  physical  examination  and  medical  supervision 
of  employees,  permanently  disabled  workers,  employees'  benefit  as- 
sociations, and  pension  funds. 

The  association  is  joint  sponsor  for  the  safety  codes  on  grinding 
wheels,  power  transmission,  and  woodworking,  in  preparation  under 
the  auspices  and  rules  of  procedure  of  the  American  Engineering 
Standards  Committee.  (See  p.  74.) 

COMMITTEE  ON  STATISTICS  AND  COMPENSATION  INSURANCE  COST. — 
Appointed  at  the  Chicago  meeting  of  the  association  in  January, 
1915,  this  committee  has  presented  reports  annually  since  that  time. 
Bulletin  No.  276  of  the  United  States  Bureau  of  ^Labor  Statistics, 
entitled  "Standardization  of  industrial  accident  statistics"  (103  p.), 
consists  of  a  revision  and  consolidation  of  the  reports  of  this  com- 
mittee, 1915-1919.  The  sixth  report,  devoted  to  methods  of  com- 
paring compensation  cost,  is  printed  in  the  1920  proceedings  of  the 
association. 

MEDICAL  COMMITTEE. — The  first  report  of  this  committee,  on  eye 
injuries,  was  presented  and  discussed  at  the  1920  annual  meeting  and 
is  published  in  its  proceedings. 

INTERNATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF  PUBLIC  EMPLOYMENT  SERV- 
ICES. 

R.  A.  Flinn.  112  West  Fifty-sixth  Street,  New  York,  N.   Y., 

secretary-treasurer. 

Organized  in  Chicago  in  December,  1913,  as  the  American  Associa- 
tion of  Public  Employment  Offices;  present  name  adopted  in  1920. 
The  objects  of  the  association  are  (a)  to  promote  a  system  or  systems 
of  employment  exchanges  in  the  United  States  and  Canada,  (b)  to 
advance  the  study  of  employment  problems,  and  (c)  to  bring  into 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,,   FOUNDATIONS,,   ETC.  113 

closer  association  and  to  coordinate  the  efforts  of  Government  officials 
and  others  engaged  or  interested  in  questions  relating  to  employ- 
ment, unemployment,  and  the  organization  of  the  labor  market. 
Persons  connected  with  Federal,  State,  provincial,  or  municipal  de- 
partments operating  public  employment  offices  are  eligible  to  mem- 
bership: others  may  become  associate  members. 

Proceedings  of  the  first  to  third,  and  fourth  annual  meetings 
(1913-1916)  were  issued  by  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statis- 
ts its  Bulletins  Nos.  192  and  220.  The  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Standardization,  presented  and  adopted  at  the  fifth  annual  meet- 
ing. September,  1917,  was  published  in  Monthly  Labor  Review, 
United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  (v.  5,  p.  950-961),  Novem- 
'917.  and  a  brief  account  of  the  seventh  annual  meeting  appeared 
-in  the  De,  ember,  1919,  issue  (v.  9,  p.  1941-1943).  In  1921  the' 
Canadian  Dep;»riment  (if  Labor  published  Proceedings  of  the  eighth 
a-inii:)!  Ottawa.  September,  1920  (230  p.),  which  contains 

papers  ,  "Unemployment  and  organization 

of  Tinployii!'  "ssiploynient  and  education,"  "The  placement  of 

the  phy^ie;:llv  handicapped,"  and  "Employment  office  administra- 
tion and  technique91  (including  job  analysis-  and  psychological 
..-). 

Bui!'j •.  !o.  X.  Y  .  has  been  chosen  as  the  place  of  the  1921  meeting. 

INTERNATIONAL  LADIES'  GARMENT  WORKERS'  UNION. 

Fnion  Sqr.  Vork/X.  Y. 

DKPAUTMI-.NT  OF  RKCOKDS  AND  RESEARCH. — Alexander  Trachtenberg, 
director.  This  dej. :,rtii>en{  has  made  a  study  of  cost  of  living  in 
Cleveland  in  connection  with  an  arbitration  iii  the  garment  industry 
there  and  is  at  present  collecting  data  concerning  earnings  of  its  mem- 
bers preparatory  to  a  study  of  seasonal  fluctuations  of  employment 
and  annual  earnings. 

INTER-RACIAL  COUNCIL. 

Broadway,  New  York,  X'.  Y.     Miss  Frances  A,  Kellor,  vice 
chairman. 

This  org;mi/:Uioiu  which  now  includes  in  its  membership  about 
1.100  industrial,  mercantile,  and  banking  corporations,  and  commit- 
i v  presenting  oii  racial  groups,  was  formed  in  March,  1919.  Its 
aims  and  purposes  are: 

To  promote  Anu'rii -:mism :  to  improve  the  relationships  among  races  in 
America;  to  stabilize  industrial  conditions;  to  develop  policies,  standards,  and 
legislation  upon  immigration  and  emigration;  to  apply  American  business 
methods  to  the  foreign  language*  press  by  building  an  American  advertising 
base  under  it  and  securing  supplies  and  credit  for  it. 

As  part  of  its  service  to  industrial  members  it  makes  analyses  of 
racial  relations  in  plants  where  foreign-born  workers  are  employed, 
with  special  reference  to  their  reactions  to  methods  of  personnel 
administration,  welfare  activities,  and  community  conditions,  and 
makes  recommendations  based  thereon  to  the  management. 

IOWA  STATE  FEDERATION  OF  LABOR. 

Cedar  Rapids,,  Iowa.  Fred  A.  Canfield,  president. 

In  February,  1921.  this  organization  conducted  a  survey  of  wages, 
co^-t  of  living,  and  costs  of  building  in  Cedar  Rapids  to  secure  data 

70723°— Bull.  299—21 8 


114  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

for  use  in  connection  with  cases  then  pending  between  the  council  and 
the  Master  Builders'  Association  in  Cedar  Kapids  and  other  cities 
on  the  question  of  wage  scales  for  1921.  The  report,  which  includes 
a  detailed  family  budget,  has  been  published  under  the  title  "  Eco- 
nomic survey  as  applying  to  the  building  trades  industry  in  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa"  (26  p.). 

JOINT  BOARD  OF  SANITARY  CONTROL  IN  THE  CLOAK,  SUIT  AND 
SKIRT  AND  DRESS  AND  WAIST  INDUSTRIES. 

131  East  Seventeenth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  George  M.  Price, 
M.  D.,  director. 

Organized  October  31,  1910,  pursuant  to  the  protocol  entered  into 
after  the  strike  in  the  summer  of  that  year  between  the  Cloak,  Suit 
and  Skirt  Manufacturers'  Protective  Association,  and  the  Cloak, 
Suit  and  Skirt  locals  of  the  International  Ladies'  Garment  Workers' 
Union  to  establish  standards  of  sanitary  conditions,  to  which  the 
manufacturers  and  the  unions  shall  be  committed.  In  1913  a  pro- 
tocol was  also  established  in  the  dress  and  waist  industry,  which  then 
joined  in  the  work  of  the  board,  and  has  since  been  under  its  juris- 
diction. The  semiannual  inspection  in  October-November,  1920, 
covered  3,866  factories  with  63,162  workers.  The  board  consists  of 
three  representatives  of  the  public,  two  representatives  of  each  of  the 
two  labor  unions,  viz :  the  joint  board  of  the  Cloak,  Skirt  and  Reefer 
Makers'  Unions,  and  the  joint  board  of  the  Ladies'  Waist  and  Dress- 
makers' Union,  and  two  representatives  from  each  of  the  employers' 
organizations.  The  budget  in  1920  was  $83,000  contributed  by  the 
unions,  employers'  associations  and  independent  manufacturers. 

The  first  annual  report  includes  the  results  of  a  special  study  of 
the  ventilation  of  cloak  and  suit  shops  made  for  the  State  Depart- 
ment of  Labor  in  1911  by  Dr.  C.  T.  Graham  Rogers,  with  the  aid  of 
an  assistant  appointed  by  the  board.  In  1914  the  board  cooperated 
with  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service  in  its  investigations  of 
the  health  of  garment  workers,  hygienic  conditions  of  illumination  in 
the  workshops,  and  the  effect  of  gas-heated  appliances  upon  the  air 
of  workshops,  which  were  reported  in  Public  Health  Bulletin  Nos. 
71  and  81. 

For  the  purpose  of  its  educational  work  among  both  employers 
and  employees  a  number  of  special  bulletins  have  been  prepared  and 
published,  among  which  are  "Manufacturers'  bulletin  on  fire  pro- 
tection" (1915,  No.  2),  "Fire  hazards  in  factory  buildings"  (1915, 
No.  8),  and  "Light  and  illumination  in  garment  shops"  (1918,  No. 
2).  A  summary  of  the  activities  of  the  board  in  supervising  fire 
drills,  first-aid  work,  sanitation  and  general  health  education,  and  a 
list  of  its  publications,  together  with  an  account  of  the  Union  Health 
Center  which  has  taken  over  and  carries  on  as  a  cooperative  enter- 
prise the  health,  medical  and  dental  services  initiated  by  the  board, 
are  given  in  "  Ten  years  of  industrial  sanitary  self  control :  tenth  an- 
nual report  of  the  Joint  Board  of  Sanitary  Control,"  1921. 

JUDGE  BAKER  FOUNDATION. 

40    Court   Street    (Scollay    Square),    Boston,    Mass.      William 

Healy,  M.  D.,  Augusta  F.  Bronner,  Ph.  D.,  directors. 
Established  in  1917,  this  foundation  exists  primarily  for  the  study 
of  the  problems  of  delinquency,  and  in  that  connection  has  to  do  Avith 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  115 

better  educational  and  vocational  adjustments.  Other  more  general 
problems  are  also  studied  in  continuation  of  the  work  on  psycho- 
logical tests  previously  published  by  the  directors.16  A  paper  on 
"Individual  variations  in  mental  equipment,"  by  Augusta  F.  Bron- 
published  in  Mental  Hygiene  (v.  4,  No.  3,  p.  521-536),  July, 
1920,  is  distributed  as  Reprint  Xo.  90  of  the  National  Committee  on 
Mental  Hygiene. 

LABOR  BUREAU  (INC.). 

Rooms  51:*.  514,  1  Union  Square,  New  York,  N.  Y.  George 
Sonic.  Evans  Clark,  David  J.  Saposs,  and  Alfred  L.  Bernheim, 
directors. 

This  bureau,  established  in  1920,  furnishes  professional  services, 

solely  to  labor  organizations,  in  statistics,  economic  and  social  re- 

search. drafting  of  legislation,  preparation  of  arbitration  cases,  etc. 

•vpril.   i  '.»•>!.  branch  oilifos  were  opened  at  14  West  Washington 

Street,  Chicago,  and  1700  Arch  Street,  Philadelphia. 

Tl"  rk  of  the  bureau  included  five  original  investi- 

o  determine  what  is  a  living  wage.    The  basis  of  each  of 

the  "  Minimum   health   and   decency   quantity 

.  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 

They  were  made  in  New  York  (East  Harlem),  November,  1920  (re- 

lonthlv  Labor  Review,  February,  1921,  pp.  61— 

;  Philadelphia,  March  1921:  New  York  (South 

•i-rlyn).  April,  1921;  Chicago,  April,  1921.    During  the  year  an 

ext(  •  made  of  wages,  cost  of  living,  profits  of 

working  conditions  in  the  Philadel- 

stry,    Studies  have  also  been  made  of  wages  of  fancy 

'ins  groups  of  city  employees  in  New 

ork  book  and  job  printing  trade,  paint- 

••.'V  hangers  in  New  York  and  Philadelphia, 

•o;i<!  unskilled  laboi  v  York  State;  and  two  reports 

<i  to  seamen,  iiremen,  cooks,  and  waiters, 

cost  of  tst  cities,  one  covering  the  Atlantic 

•or  the  Pacific  coast.     Other  investigations 

at  include  continuity  of  employment  in  the  printing  trades, 

••rk  and  week  work  in  the  clothing  industry,  and  the  extent 

r  of  joint  control  by  capital  and  labor  in  the  management 

»llo\vmg  publication  contains  the  results  of  one 

of  its  studies  for  labor  organizations  in  Philadelphia: 

Th(  ;ry  of  Philadelphia:  a  report  on  wages, 

.  profits,  awl   <  conditions,  compiled  in  behalf  of  Phiia- 

ict   Council.   No.  21,  Brotherhood  of  Painters,   Decorators,   find 

.-•  of  America.    1921.  3:2  p. 

The  bureau  has  undertaken  the  installation  of  systems  of  personnel 
records  for  various  labor  unions,  in  such  form  as  to  allow  at  any  time 
for  statistical  reports  on  unemployment,  part-time  work,  labor  turn- 
over, causes  of  lay-oifs.  etc. 


16  Of.  Tost;-  !>,'  sneirial  classification,  liy  W.  llo,-i!y  and  (inn-f   M.  Fprnald.      101:1. 

53    p.       (Psychological    Monograph    No.    r>4.  )       Psychology    of    special    abilities    and    (lisa 
bilities,   by  .nner.     Boston,   lit  17.      -• 


116  111.    XOXm-TtriAL    AOKNriK<. 

LIFE  EXTENSION  INSTITUTE. 

25  West  Forty-fifth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Harold  A.  Ley, 
president ;  Eugene  Lyman  Fisk,  M.  D.,  medical  director. 

Organized  and-  incorporated  in  1914  as  a  self-sustaining  public 
service  institution  with  a  hygiene  reference  board  of  100  advisers  to 
control  its  educational  and  scientific  policy  (Prof.  Irving  Fisher, 
Yale  University,  chairman). 

Its  purpose  is  to  conserve  health  and  prolong  life  and  to  this  end 
it  has  organized  health  services  for  individual  subscribers,  for  groups 
of  employees,  and  for  institutions  such  as  insurance  companies  which 
are  interested  in  prolonging  the  lives  of  their  members  or  policy- 
holders.  These  services  include  a  standard  physical  examination, 
laboratory  tests,  monthly  journals  and  other  educational  health 
literature.  It  maintains  a  pathological  laboratory  at  the  head  office 
in  NeAV  York  and  has  in  its  service  over  7,000  examining  physicians 
located  in  the  principal  cities  and  towns  throughout  the  country.  In 
its  industrial  service  the  institute  examines  1,500  to  2,000  employees 
a  month. 

Analyses  of  the  examinations  of  typical  industrial  and  commercial 
groups  have  been  made,  disclosing  the  extent  of  prevalence  of  various 
physical  impairments.  These  results  are  available  in  reprints  of 
papers  by  the  medical  director. 

Recently  the  institute  has  developed  a  plan  for  a  special  form  of 
mutual  benefit  association  combining  the  health  services  of  the  insti- 
tute with  group  health  and  accident  insurance  and  group  life  insur- 
ance by  an  insurance  company  and  has  organized  such  associations  in 
a  considerable  number  of  industrial  concerns.  Pamphlets  describing 
the  details  of  the  scheme  may  be  obtained  on  application.  An  ac- 
count was  also  published  in  the  Survey,  October  16,  1920  (p.  90-91.) 

McLEAN  HOSPITAL. 

Waverley,  Mass. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL,  LABORATORY. — The  results  of  the  studies  in  voca- 
tional psychology  made  while  Dr.  Frederic  Lyman  Wells17  was  psy- 
chologist* in  this  institution  (until  January  1/1921)  are  published  in 
the  following: 

Wells.  F.  L.  The  analysis  of  a.  successful  agent.  (Life  Association  News,  v. 
11,  No.  3.)  An  address  on  the  scientific  selection  of  life  insurance  salesmen  at 
the  first  annual  meeting  of  the  Association  of  Life  Agency  Officers.  Chicago,  Oct. 
16,  1916. 

—  Alternative  methods  for  mental  examiners.     (Jour.  App.  Psychol..  June, 
1017,  v.  1,  p.  134-143.) 

—  On  the  psychomotor  nrechanisms  of  typewriting      ( Amer.  Jour.  Psyrhol.. 
Jan.,  1916,  v.  27,  p.  47-70.) 

Kelley,  C.  M.,  find  Wells,  F.  L.  Briefer  studios  from  the  psychological  labora- 
tory of  McLean  Hospital.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  June,  1919.  v.  3.  p.  172-193.) 
Includes  the  "  coach  proof "  test,  a  filing  test,  and  a  brief  test  for  mental 
accuracy. 

MASSACHUSETTS  GENERAL  HOSPITAL. 

Boston,  Mass. 

INDUSTRIAL  CLINIC. — Wade  Wright,  M.  D.,  secretary,  industrial 
hygiene.  This  clinic  was  opened  in  the  out-patient  department  of 

17  Now    chief   of    the  psychological   laboratory   of    Boston    Psychopathic    Hospital.      (See 


ASSOCIATIONS,    SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  117 

the  hospital  in  March,  191G.  A  report  of  its  activities  was  published 
in  the  Monthly  Review  of  the  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  De- 
cember, 1017.  in  two  articles,  "The  study  of  occupational  diseases  in 
hospitals."  by  David  L.  Edsall  (p.  -169-185)  and  "An  industrial 
clinic,"  by  Wade  Wright  (p.  185-193).  During  the  war  it  was 
temporarily  suspended. 

The  scope  of.  the  activities  of  the  Industrial  Clinic  is  now  being 
extended  and  it  is  closely  affiliated  with  the  Division  of  Industrial 
Hygiene  of  Harvard  Medical  School.  (See  p.  180.)  It  is  undertak- 
ing certain  studies' of  industrial  morbidity,  based  on  the  records  of 
the  out-patient  department  of  the  hospital  and  analyses  of  the  sick 
ntee  reports  of  a  large  public  service  corporation,  of  the  effects 
of  early  employment  upon  the  health  of  adolescents,  and  of  specific 
industrial  <i  particularly  lead  poisoning. 

MASSACHUSETTS  SOCIETY  FOR  MENTAL  HYGIENE. 

1132   Kimlmll    Building,   18  Tremont   Street,   Boston  9,   Mass. 

A.  W.  Stt.irns,  M.  D.,  medical  director. 

Or-jM1!  incorporated  in  1913  for  the  prevention  of  mental 

disease  and  defect,  this  society  has  thus  far  confined  itself  to  educa- 
tional work  through  public  lectures,  the  preparation  and  distribution 
of  literature,  and  conferences.  Among  its  publications  are  the  fol- 
lowing on  personnel  subjects: 

No.  80.   Sonic  criteria  for  the  evaluation  of  mental  tests  and  test  series.     By 

\pplicati-  •••hisitry  to  industrial  li.vgieiie.      By   Stanley  Cobb. 

(Re  >  -Jour,  Ijulust.  Hyg.,  v,  1,  No.  7,  p.  343-347,  Nov.,  1919.) 

In  the   future  the  society's  efforts  will  be  more  specialized  and 

runong  the-  selects  I  fields  of  activity  under  special  committees  is  a 

••he  scope  of  which  is  "the  application  of  knowledge  of  per- 

iiperament,  as  well  as  the  prevention  of  disease,  in  the 

Industrie  conference  on  the  subject  of  "The  human  element  in 

industry"  was  held  April  7,  1921. 

MERCHANTS  ASSOCIATION  OF  NEW  YORK. 

Woolworth  Building,  233  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y.     S.  C. 

,  secretary. 

INDUSTRIAL  BUREAU. — In  1917  this  bureau  made  an  investigation 
into  the  extent  to  which  women  were  being  substituted  for  men,  the 
t\  pes  of  work  on  which  they  were  found  satisfactory,  and  special 
unected  with  such  employment.  The  results  were  pub- 
lished in  a  pamphlet  entitled  "Increased  employment  of  women  in 
indusi  ry  :  a  report  on  the  problems  of  substituting  female  workers  for 
male  to  meet  the  present  labor  scarcity,"  November,  1917  (23  p.). 

It  has  recently  made  a  study  of  the  turnover  of  factory  labor  in 
X-w  York  City,' the  results  of  which  were  published  in  the  organ  of 
the  association,  C  reciter  JYv«  York  for  October  4,  1920  (also  in 
Month!  v  Labor  Review,  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  November, 
1920,  pfir.- 

(.VMMITTKE  ox  INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS. — This  committee  has  pre- 
pared two  reports  on  "Industrial  relations,''  which  were  adopted  and 
approved  by  the  board  of  directors  and  published  in  pamphlet  form 
niber  13,  1919,  and  March  9,  1921,  respectively. 


118  III.   XOXOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

METROPOLITAN  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO. 

1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York,  X.  Y. 

This  company  has  financed  the  Framingham  Community  Health 
and  Tuberculosis  Demonstration  conducted  by  the  National  Tubercu- 
losis Association  (see  p.  136). 

PERSONNEL  DIVISION. — The  system  and  methods  followed  by  this 
division  are  described  in  an  article  by  Lawrence  Washington  in 
Industrial  Management,  July  1,  1921  (p.  27-32). 

POLICYHOLDERS'  SERVICE  BUREAU. — Alexander  Fleisher,  assistant 
secretary.  This  bureau  sends  out  to  group  policy  holders  a  monthly 
"  Industrial  Service  Bulletin :  Digest  of  current  literature  on  per- 
sonnel problems"  (mimeographed)  ;  semimonthly  letters  on  special 
topics  in  this  field;  and  occasional  special  short  studies  (e.  g.,  on 
methods  of  wage  payment,  training  of  foremen,  employees'  thrift 
and  savings  plans,  employees'  incentive  or  bonus  plans),  and 
bibliographies. 

STATISTICAL  BUREAU. — Louis  I.  Dublin,  statistician.  The  results 
of  an  analysis  of  the  occupational  mortality  experience  of  the  Metro- 
politan Life  Insurance  Co.,  1911-1913,  prepared  by  this  bureau,  were 
published  in  1917  under  the  title,  "  Causes  of  death,  by  occupation," 
as  Bulletin  No.  207  of  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 
Among  other  studies  by  this  bureau  available  for  distribution  are  the 
following  pamphlets  bearing  on  occupational  hazards  and  morbidity : 

The  effect  of  life  conservation  on  the  mortality  of  the  Metropolitan  Life  In- 
surance Co. :  a  summary  of  the  experience,  industrial  department,  1914,  for 
superintendents,  medical  examiners,  and  visiting  nurses.  By  Louis  I.  Dublin, 
1916.  11  p. 

The   health   of  food-handlers :  a   cooperative  study  by   the   Department  of 
Health,  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Co.,  and  the  American  Museum  of 
Safety.     Report  prepared  by  Louis  I.  Harris  and  Louis  I.  Dublin.     1917.    2ii  p. 
(Also  issued  in  Monograph  series,  I\To.  17,  of  New  York  City  Departnu 
Health.) 

Sickness  among  coal  miners  and  their  families.    By  Lee  K.  Frankel  and  : 
I.  Dublin.     1917.     14  p. 

Occupation  hazards  and  diagnostic  signs:  a  guide  for  medical  examine- 
garding  impairments  to  be  looked  for  in  hazardous  occupations.    1918.    15  p. 

Occupational  ratings  [rate  book,  insert].    27  p. 

NATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF  CORPORATION  TRAINING. 

130  East  Fifteenth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  F.  C.  Henderschott, 
managing  director. 

Organized  at  New  York  University,  January  24,  1913,  as  the  Xa- 
tional  Association  of  Corporation  Schools:  name  changed  to  present 
form  August,  1920,  and  association  incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
Delaware. 

The  object  of  the  association  is  to  aid  corporations  in  the  educa- 
tion of  their  employees:  (1)  By  providing  a  forum  for  the  inter- 
change of  ideas;  (2)  by  collecting,  and  making  available,  data  as  to 
the  successful  and  unsuccessful  plans  of  developing  the  efficiency  of 
the  individual  employee. 

There  are  three  classes  of  members:  Class  A,  commercial,  indus- 
trial, transportation,  or  governmental  organizations  (admission  fee, 
$100;  annual  dues,  $100);  class  B,  employees  of  class  A  members 
(annual  dues,  $5)  ;  class  C,  interested  persons  not  eligible  for  mem- 
bership in  A  or  B  (annual  dues,  $10).  Five  local  chapters  have  been 
organized,  viz,  Chicago,  southern  Xew  England,  Pittsburgh,  western 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  119 

New  York,  New  York  City.  The  annual  conventions  (four  days) 
are  held  in  different  cities,  usually  in  June. 

Committees  of  the  association  study  and  investigate  various  phases 
of  training  and  other  personnel  developments.  Their  reports  are 
printed  in  advance  of  the  annual  convention  and  are  included  with 
discussions  thereon  in  the  annual  volume  of  proceedings.  For  the 
current  year  (1921)  there  are  committees  on  the  following  subjects: 

Application  of  psychological  tests  and  rating  scales  in  industry  (1919). 

Employment  O!)l~>). 

Executive  training  (1918). 

Foremen  training. 

Healtfc education  <  UH.4). 

Job  analysis  (1919). 

Labor  turnover. 

Mark ctin ir    iV.rm. 

Oiiu-'-Avork  training   (1914). 

Profit  -.sharing  and  allied  iiirift  plans. 

Public  ediH-Mtion    (II1; 

Skills-  bor  (  UH8). 

oical  training 
Tra 

(1013). 
'•••m  II — Su-rl  and  iron  and  plant  maintenance. 

Ill — Railroads. 
Train in.v    for   ; 

1'ii^kilUMl  l.-ibor  Miid  ainericaiiizaiinn    ilUUM. 
Visualized  training. 

A  list  of  (lie  chairmen  and  outline  of  the  scope  of  work  of  these 

Miittees  is  printed  in  a  special  circular  and  at  the  back  of  each 

number   of   the   ;;sso--i:u  illetin.      The   da  to   given   after   the 

i':um>  of  any  of  the  above  committees  indicates  the  first  volume  of 

proceedings  in  which  a  report  of  that  committee  or  its  equivalent 

,-irs. 

In  addition  to  the  above  a  Committee  on  Vocational  Guidance 
ma<i<  ;ve  reports  in  1915  and  1916  which  cover  the  whole 

field  t>i'  |>er>oinu«!  administration.  Reports  of  committees  on 
"Methods  of  instruction"  ami  "Corporation  continuation  schools" 
are  printed  in  the  proceedings  1917-1919. 

A   s|K.,.j:«l  {Slid  confidential  report  service  is  available  to  class  A 
members  only.    Two  confidential  reports  and  two  special  reports  are 
•  !  annually. 

••I  reports. — No.  1,  An  initial  survey  of  the  problem  of 
labor  turnover.  No.  2,  The  present  status  of  business  correspond- 
ence: development  of  the  business  letter.  No.  3,  A  survey  of  some 
of  the  industrial-educational  problems  of  reconstruction.  No.  4,  A 
preliminary  survey  of  the  problem  of  representation  in  management. 
No.  5,  Bonus  plans  and  other  schemes  for  insuring  satisfactory 
punctuality  and  attendance  records.  No.  6,  Transfers  and  pro- 
motions. 

Xo.  7  (in  preparation).  Industrial  training  costs.  No.  8  (in 
preparation),  Personnel  organizations. 

A/  jiortx. — No.    1.    Trade    apprenticeship    schools.     No.  2, 

Office- work  schools.  No.  3,  Educational  methods.  No.  4,  Hygiene 
and  sanitation  for  the  worker.  No.  5,  Housing  plans.  No.  6,  Group 
insurance. 

Xo.  7  (in  preparation) ,  Employee  stock' ownership  plans.  No.  8 
(in  preparation),  Industrial  athletics. 


120  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

NATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF  DIRECTORS   OF  EDUCATIONAL  RE- 
SEARCH. 

E.  J.  Ashbaugh,  University  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City,  secretary. 

The  objects  of  this  association  are  (1)  the  formation  of  inde- 
pendent departments  of  educational  research  in  all  systems  of  public 
instruction,  and  (2)  the  promotion  of  the  practical  use  of  educational 
measurements  in  all  educational  research  having  for  its  object  tlie 
improvement  of  the  efficiency  of  the  educational  administration, 
supervision,  or  teaching. 

In  1918  a  committee  of  this  association  prepared  for  the  annual 
meeting  in  that  year  a  report  on  "  The  measurement  of  educational 
products"  (194  p.),  which  was  published  by  the  National  Society 
for  the  Study  of  Education,  as  its  Seventeenth  Yearbook  (pt.  2). 
This  includes  chapters  on  bureaus  of  research  in  city  school  systems, 
existing  tests  and  standards,  statistical  methods,  and  a  bibliography. 

The  official  organ  of  the  association  is  the  Journal  of  Educational 
Research  (published  for  the  Bureau  of  Educational  Research,  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois,  by  the  Public  School  Publishing  Co.,  Blooming- 
ton,  III.)  in  which  it  conducts  a  department  recording  research  in 
progress. 

NATIONAL  CHILD  LABOR  COMMITTEE. 

105  East  Twenty-second  Street,  New  York.  N.  Y.  Owen  R. 
Love  joy,  general  secretary. 

Organized  April  15,  1904,  and  incorporated  by  act  of  Congress 
February  21,  1907,  to  safeguard  American  childhood  as  affected  by 
industrial  and  agricultural  conditions.  The  enactment  and  enforce- 
ment of  progressive  legislation  and  the  development  of  enlightened 
public  opinion  are  essential  features  of  the  committee's  policy.  Its 
legislative  program  is  chiefly  concerned  with  child  labor  laws,  com- 
pulsory education  laws,  mothers'  pension  laws,  and  so-called  chil- 
dren's codes. 

The  committee  has  a  staff  of  trained  investigators  whose  services 
are  placed  at  the  disposal  of  local  agencies  desirous  of  procuring  data 
for  revision  and  standardization  of  child  welfare  laws  in  their  re- 
spective States.  Child- welfare  surveys  have  been  completed  and  the 
results  published  for  Oklahoma  (1918),  Alabama  (I918).  North 
Carolina  (1918),  Kentucky  (1919),  and  Tennessee  (1921),  and  one  in 
West  Virginia  is  in  progress.  Each  of  these  reports  contains  a  chap- 
ter on  the  operation  of  the  State  child-labor  laws. 

A  study  of  health  defects  of  working  children  in  Newark,  N.  J., 
under  the  direction  of  the  committee  is  in  progress.  A  discussion  of 
the  health  needs  of  working  children  by  Dr.  H.  H.  Mitchell,  in  charge 
of  the  investigation,  entitled  "At  what  age  should  children  enter  in- 
dustry?" was  published  in  the  May,  1921,  issue  of  The  American 

The  300  pamphlets  and  the  child-labor  bulletin  (y.  1-7.  1912-1919), 
continued  since  May,  1919,  by  the  quarterly  periodical  Thf>.  Ann ; 
Child,  which  the  committee  has  published,  contain  occasional  reports 
of  investigations  of  the  employment  of  children  in  various  occupa- 
tions. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  121 

NATIONAL  CIVIC  FEDERATION. 

Thirty-third   Floor,   Metropolitan   Tower,   New    York,   N.    Y. 
Mrs.  Gertrude  Beeks  Easier,  secretary,  executive  council. 

An  organization  of  representatives  of  capital,  labor,  and  the  gen- 
eral public  formed  as  an  outgrowth  of  conventions  held  in  Chicago 
and  New  York,  1900-1901.  Its  purpose  is  "to  organize  the  best 
brains  of  the  nation  in  an  educational  movement  seeking  the  solu- 
tion of  some  of  the  great  problems  related  to  sacial  and  industrial 
progress  ;  to  provide  for  study  and  discussion  of  questions  of  national 
import  ;  to  aid  thus  in  the  crystallization  of  the  most  enlightened 
public  opinion  :  and  when  desirable,  to  promote  legislation  in  accord- 
ance therewith." 

The  federation  is  organized  in  the  following  departments:  Food 
and  drugs.  Immigration,  Industrial  accident  prevention,  Industrial 
economics,  Industrial  mediation,  Industrial  training.  Pensions,  Profit- 
sharing,  Public  health  education.  Regulation  of  industrial  corpora- 
tions, Regulation  of  public  utilities.  Social  insurance,  Study  of  revo- 
lutionary movements.  Welfare,  Workmen's  compensation,  Woman's 
department.  Minimum  wage  commission,  and  Committee  on  national 
(iolVnsc,  Their  activities  arc  reorted  in  the  National  Civic 


reported  in  the  National  Civic  Feeler®- 

ti<  view,  annual  meeting  addresses,  and  special  publications. 
Only  those  related  to  the  field  of  personnel  research  are  noted  here,  as 
follows  : 

Industrial  Economics  Diepartment  has  made  a  study  of  the  divi- 
sion of  people's  income,  and  its  conclusions  will  soon  be  made  public. 

Industrial  Training  Department  is  interesting  employers  in  fac- 
tory industrial  training  through  establishment  of  vestibule  schools. 
This  is  an  enlargement  of  the  work  conducted  by  the  federation's 
Welfare  Department  for  the  Committee  on  Labor  of  the  Council  of 
National  Defense,  during  the  war,  when  there  was  given  a  practical 
demonstration  of  the  possibility  of  utilizing  such  schools,  to  place 
new  employees  through  proper  tests  in  jobs  which  they  could  suc- 
cessfully perform,  to  train  new  unskilled  workers  and  improve  'the 
efficiency  of  the  skilled,  including  foremen.  Reports  on  this  sub- 
ject are'  published  in  the  National  Civic  Federation  Review  for  April 
10,  1919,  and  May  10,  1920. 

Pensions  Department  published  in  1916  "The  problem  of  pen- 
sions: Federal,  State,  municipal,  and  industrial  "  (15  p.),  to  which  is 
appended  a  tabular  summary  of  data  on  "Industrial  pensions  or  re- 
tirement systems  in  operation  throughout  the  United  States." 

Profit-sharing  Department  has  issued  two  editions  of  a  report  on 
"  Profit  sharing  by  American  employers  ;  examples  from  England, 
types  in  France  "  (2d  ed..  1920,  423  p.). 

Welfare  Department,  organized  to  induce  employers  through  edu- 
cational means  to  improve  voluntarily  working  and  living  conditions 
of  employees,  is  collecting  data  on  welfare  work  in  stores,  factories, 
mines,  on  railroads  and  in  public  institutions.  The  scope  of  the 
inquiry  is  shown  in  a  printed  "  Outline  for  report  on  welfare  work  " 
under  the  following  main  headings:  Type  of  work  place,  sanitation, 
recreation,  education,  housing,  additions  to  wages,  provident  funds, 
supervision  of  welfare  work.  The  National  Civic  Federation  Review 
for  July  15,  1913.  was  devoted  to  "  Working  conditions  in  New  York 
stores  ;  "a  report  upon  welfare  activities  in  22  retail  concerns."  A 


122  III.    NONOFFK'IAL   AGENCIES. 

housing  committee  is  organized  under  this  department  to  evolve  ways 
and  means  to  meet  the  national  housing  problem. 

Social  Insurance  Department  has  been  active  in  opposition  to  pro- 
posed compulsory  health  insurance  legislation.  It  has  issued  two 
reports  of  the  committee  on  foreign  inquiry  (1914  and  1920),  pam- 
phlets by  its  committee  on  constructive  plan,  and  addresses  at  annual 
meetings.  The  1917  annual  meeting  addresses  on  compulsory  health 
insurance  include  data  on  existing  voluntary  agencies  instituted  by 
trade  unions  and  industrial  concerns. 

Committee  upon  dangerous  and  unhealthy  industries  of  the  New 
York  and  New  Jersey  section  (Women's  Welfare  Department)  pub- 
lished in  1912  a  report  of  an  investigation  on  "  Mercury  poisoning  in 
the  industries  of  New  York  City  and  vicinity,"  by  Mrs.  Lindoii  W. 
Bates,  its  chairman. 

NATIONAL  COMMITTEE  FOR  MENTAL  HYGIENE. 

Penn  Terminal  Building,  Seventh  Avenue  and  Thirty-first 
Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Thomas  W.  Salmon,  M.  D.,  medical 
director. 

Founded  in  1909  and  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of 
New  York  in  1916  to  work  for  the  conservation  of  mental  health :  to 
help  prevent  nervous  and  mental  disorders  and  mental  defect:  to 
help  raise  the  standards  of  care  and  treatment  for  those  suffering 
from  any  of  these  disorders  or  mental  defect;  to  secure  and  dis- 
seminate reliable  information  on  these  subjects  and  also  on  mental 
factors  involved  in  problems  related  to  industry,  education,  delin- 
quency, dependency,  and  the  like;  to  aid  ex-service  men  disabled  in 
the  war;  to  cooperate  with  Federal,  State,  and  local  agencies.  Affili- 
ated societies  or  committees  for  mental  hygiene  have  been  organized 
in  17  States  and  the  District  of  Columbia.  The  necessary  funds  to 
support  the  work  of  the  committee  have  been  largely  provided  by  the 
Eockefeller  Foundation. 

Since  January,  1917,  the  committee  has  published  a  quarterly 
magazine  entitled  Mental  Hygiene,  in  which  "nontechnical  articles 
on  the  practical  management  of  mental  problems  in  all  relations  of 
life"  appear  (subscription  $2  a  year).  A  list  of  publications  con- 
sisting of  reprints  from  this  magazine  and  other  medical  journals, 
special  publications,  and  leaflets  available  for  distribution  may  be 
obtained  on  application.  Among  these  are  included  the  following 
pamphlets  dealing  with  the  mental  hygiene  of  industry : 

Adler,  Herman  M.  Unemployment  and  personality;  a  study  of  psychopathic 
cases.  (Reprint  2  from  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  1,  p.  16-24,  Jan.,  1937.) 

Bailey,  Poarce.  Efficiency  and  inefficiency — a  problem  in  medicine.  (Re- 
print 12  from  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  1,  p.  19<>-210,  Apr.,  1917.) 

Jarrett,  Mary  C.  The  psychopathic  employee:  a  problem  of  industry.  (lie- 
print  from  Medicine  and  Surgery,  v.  1,  p.  727-741,  Sept.,  1917.) 

ROPSV.  C\  R.  Feeble-mindedness  and  industrial  relations.  (Reprint  19  from 
Mental  Hygiene,  v.  2,  p.  34-52,  Jan.,  1918.) 

Southard.  E.  E.  The  movement  for  a  mental  hygiene  of  industry.  (  Reprint 
74  from  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  4,  p.  43-64,  Jan.,  ITrjo.) 

Southard,  E.  E.  Trade-unionism  and  temperament :  nott  s  upon  the  psy- 
chiatric point  of  view  in  industry.  (Reprint  from  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  4,  p. 
231-300,  Apr.,  1920.) 

Southard,  E.  E.  The  modern  specialist  in  unrest:  a  place  for  the  psychia- 
trist  in  industry.  (Reprint  92  from  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  4,  p.  550-563,  July, 
1920.) 


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Jarrett,  Mary  C.  The  mental  hygiene  of  industry :  report  of  progress  of 
work  undertaken  under  the  Engineering  Foundation  of  New  York.  (Reprint 
88  from  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  4,  No.  4.  Oct.,  1920.) 

NATIONAL  COMMITTEE  FOR  THE  PREVENTION  OF  BLINDNESS. 

130  East  Twenty-second  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Mrs.  Wini- 
fred Hathaway,  secretary. 

Organized  January  1,  1915,  by  the  consolidation  of  the  Committee 
for  the  Prevention  of  Blindness  and  the  American  Association  for 
the  Conservation  of  Vision. 

In  1916  this  committee  made  a  survey  of  TO  representative  indus- 
trial plants  in  Buffalo,  X.  Y.,  to  ascertain  the  local  working  condi- 
tions and  the  industrial  accident  hazards  which  might  be  productive 
of  eye  injuries.  With  this  study  as  a  basis,  the  investigation  was 
extended  to  cover  the  entire  field  of  such  hazards  in  American  indus- 
tries. The  results  were  issued  as  No.  12  of  the  committee's  publi- 
cations : 

Kye  hazards  in  industrial  occupations:  a  report  of  typical  cases  and  con- 
ditions, with  recommendations  for  safe  practice.  By  Gordon  L.  Berry  and 
Thomas  P.  Bradshaw.  Nov.,  1917.  145  p. 

A  model  plan  for  saving  sight  in  industry  was  prepared  by  the 
committee  for  the  hospital  and  health  survey  made  by  the  Cleveland 
Hospital  Council  in  1920.  (See  p.  94.) 

The  committee  has  cooperated  with  the  United  States  Bureau  of 
Standards  in  preparation  of  the  "  National  safety  code  for  the  pro- 
tec;  ion  of  the  heads  and  eyes  of  industrial  workers."  It  has  also 
prepared  a  set  of  posters  on  industrial  eye  accidents  for  use  in  safety 
and  health  exhibits,  factories,  etc.;  and  miniature  reproductions  for 
general  distribution  (e.  g.,  in  pay  envelopes).  Recently  its  publicity 
material  has  included  several  articles  on  the  dangers  of  wood  alcohol. 

NATIONAL  COMMITTEE  ON  PRISONS  AND  PRISON  LABOR. 

Broadway  and  One  hundred  and  sixteenth  Street,  New  York, 
N.  Y.  E.  Stagg  Whitin,  chairman,  executive  committee. 

Established  in  August,  1909,  for  the  purpose  of  studying  the 
problem  of  labor  in  prison  and  with  a  view  to  causing  the  abolition 
of  the  contract  system  of  convict  labor,  this  committee  has  recently 
endeavored  to  secure  the  introduction  of  modern  methods  of  per- 
sonnel administration  into  prison  industries.  Its  program  for  mak- 
ing thfc  prisons  training  schools  for  life  after  release  and  for  increas- 
ing production  in  the  prison  industries,  so  that  penal  communities 
may  become  self-sustaining,  includes  classification  of  prisoners  by 
psychiatric  examination  to  determine  appropriate  treatment,  indus- 
trial training,  placement  by  trade  tests,  payment  of  wages  based  on 
individual  efficiency  and  other  incentives,  and  a  system  of  after  care 
and  industrial  parole. 

Investigations  on  these  subjects  were  made  by  the  New  York 
(State)  Prison  Survey  Committee,  of  which  Mr.  Adolph  Lewisohn, 
president  of  the  national  committee,  was  chairman,  and  the  results 
and  recommendations  thereon  published  in  its  report,  1920  (412  p.), 
particularly  in  Chapters  III,  IX,  and  XII.  The  national  committee 
is  at  present  engaged  in  a  reorganization  of  the  shoe  shop  at  Sing 
Sing  Prison  according  to  the  plan  recommended  to  demonstrate  its 
practical  application/  It  has  already  secured  the  establishment  of  a 
psychiatric  bureau  in  that  institution. 


124  III.    XOXOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

In  1920  the  committee  published  a  report  on  "  The  penal  system  of 
the  District  of  Columbia"  (32  p.,  illus.,  charts),  based  on  a  study 
which  it  made  at  the  invitation  of  the  Penal  Commission  of  the 
District  of  Columbia,  submitting  recommendations  along  the  lines 
above  indicated. 

The  committee  is  at  present  cooperating  with  State  authorities  in 
similar  prison  surveys  in  Virginia  and  Texas. 

NATIONAL  CONSUMERS'  LEAGUE. 

44  East  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York,  X.  Y.  Mrs.  Florence 
Kelley,  general  secretary;  Miss  Mary  "W.  Dewson,  research 
secretary. 

Organized  May,  1899,  to  awaken  responsibility  for  conditions  under 
which  goods  are  made  and  distributed,  through  investigation,  educa- 
tion, and  legislation,  to  mobilize  public  opinion  in  behalf  of  en- 
lightened standards  for  workers  and  honest  products  for  all.  The 
principal  research  work  done  by  the  league  has  been  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  briefs  in  defense  of  the  constitutionality  of  labor  laws,  limit- 
ing the  hours  of  labor,  prohibiting  night  work  of  women,  and  pro- 
viding for  the  fixing  of  minimum  wages.  In  addition  to  these  it  has 
published  results  of  the  following  surveys  made  under  its  auspices : 

Wagre-ea  ruins'  women  and  girls  in  Baltimore — a  study  of  the  cost  of  living 
in  1918.  By  Josephine  A.  Koche.  1918.  36  p. 

Survey  of  wage-earning  girls  below  sixteen  years  of  age  in  Wilkes-Barre.  P;t. 
By  Sarah  H.  Atherton.  1915.  65  p. 

Wage-earning  women  in  war  time — the  textile  industry.  (With  special  refer- 
ence in  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  to  woolen  and  worsted  yarn,  and  in  Rhode 
Island  to  work  of  women  at  night.)  By  Florence  Kelley.  (Repr.  from  Journal 
of  Industrial  Hygiene  for  October,  1919.)  24  p. 

See  also  Consumers'  Leagues  of  Cincinnati,  Connecticut,  Eastern 
Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  New  York  (p.  96-97),  Toledo 
(p.  158). 

NATIONAL  ELECTRIC  LIGHT  ASSOCIATION. 

2£  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  M.  H.  Ayles- 
worth,  executive  manager. 

This  association  was  organized  at  Chicago  in  1885  and  its  object  is 
to  advance  the  art  and  science  of  production,  distribution  and  use  of 
electricity  for  light,  heat,  and  power  for  public  service,  in  further- 
ance of  which  its  activities  are  largely  educational.  The  association 
has  four  national  sections — Accounting,  Commercial,  Public  relations, 
Technical — and  13  geographic  divisions,  under  which  are  grouped 
State  associations  and  sections;  also  company  sections  and  local  clubs. 
The  functions  and  personnel  of  its  numerous  committees,  subcom- 
mittees, etc.,  are  given  in  a  pamphlet,  "  Organization  personnel  of  the 
National  Electric  Light  Association,"  published  annually.  Their  re- 
ports are  printed  as  advance  copies  for  presentation  at  the  annual 
conventions  of  the  association,  held  in  May,  and  subsequently  pub- 
lished in  the  volumes  of  proceedings.  Among  the  subjects  which 
have  been  studied  through  committees  are  accident  prevention,  resus- 
citation from  electric  shock,  education  of  employees  in  the  industry, 
and  wage  incentives. 

ACCIDENT  PREVENTION  COMMITTEE. — Charles  B.  Scott,  Bureau  of 
Safety,  Chicago,  TIL,  chairman.  This  committee  has  presented  re- 
ports since  1914.  It  was  at  first  concerned  with  preparation  of  ac- 
cident-prevention rules  relating  to  operating  methods  of  companies 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  125 

and  workmen,  later  with  the  details  of  operating  methods  and  safety 
specifications  for  tools  and  appliances,  such  as  safety  belts,  rubber 
gloves,  ladders,  first-aid  kits,  etc.  In  1920  its  scope  was  extended  to 
include  also  health  promotion  and  morbidity  statistics,  and  fire  pre- 
vention and  extinguishment;  and  its  report  presented  in  1921  in- 
cludes detail  reports  on  these  subjects  in  addition  to  material  on 
operating  methods,  organization  methods,  and  apparatus. 

As  recently  reorganized  this  committee  consists  of  geographic  divi- 
sion representatives,  who  are  the  chairmen  of  the  accident  preven- 
tion committees  of  these  divisions,  and  some  members  at  large.  Its 
work  is  now  carried  on  in  seven  subcommittees — Apparatus,  Devices 
and  appliances.  Fire  prevention,  Health  promotion,  Operating  meth- 
ods. Organization,  Publicity. 

During  the  period  1918-19  it  was  a  subcommittee  of  the  Safety 
Rules  and  Accident  Prevention  Committee  of  the  association,  and  co- 
operated with  the  Bureau  of  Standards  in  formulating  the  operating 
in  part  4  of  the  National  Electrical  Safety  Code.  The  main 
committee  (later  a  separate  Safety  Rules  Committee)  was  chiefly 
concerned  with  assisting  the  Bureau  of  Standards  and  various  State 
iiissions  in  the  preparation  or  revision  of  safety  rules  for  con- 
struction of  o^,  emend  and  underground  lines,  electrical  equipment  of 
stations,  and  electrical  equipment  for  utilization  of  electrical  energy, 
covered  by  parts  1  to  3  of  the  National  Electrical  Safety  Code,  and 
subcommittees  were  formed  to  assist  in  special  researches  connected 
therewith. 

C<»;  .<H  N  RESUSCITATION  FROM  ELECTRIC  SHOCK. — The  first 

-commission,  consisting  of  representatives  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  National  Electric  Light  Association  and  General  Elec- 
tric Co.  WHS  organized,  on  the  initiative  of  this  association,  in  1911 
to  consider  the  problems  presented  in  resuscitation  and  in  the  deter- 
mination of  the  best  manual  method  of  artificial  respiration  that 
could  instantly  be  applied  by  laymen.  Its  report  unqualifiedly  rec- 
ommended the  prone  pressure  method  and  rules  based  on  the  findings 
of  the  commission  were  printed  and  distributed  by  the  National  Elec- 
tric Light  Association  in  1912. 

The  third  resuscitation  commission,18  composed  of  15  physiologists, 
physicians,  surgeons,  and  engineers,  representing  medical  and  techni- 
cal societies,  institutions  of  learning,  bureaus,  and  divisions  of  the 
Federal  Government  and  the  electrical  industry,  was  organized  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Committee  on  Safety  Rules  and  Accident  Pre- 
vencion  of  the  N.  E.  L.  A.  in  1918  to  review  the  work  accomplished 
and  make  further  recommendations.  Besides  considering  all  the 
known  efficient  methods  of  artificial  respiration  for  emergency  use,  a 
number  of  laboratory  tests  and  demonstrations  were  made  by  the 
commission  relative  to  the  value  of  mechanical  devices  for  inducing 
respiration  in  the  apparently  dead.  Its  proceedings  and  resolutions 
are  appended  (p.  20-32)  to  the  "  Rules  for  resuscitation  from  elec- 
trical shock  by  the  prone  pressure  method,"  revised  April,  1919,  by 
the  subcommittee  on  accident  prevention  of  the  above-named  com- 
mittee, on  the  basis  of  the  commission's  resolutions,  and  issued  by 

18  The   Second   1-  e;-n.«citation   Commission   was  appointed  by   the   IT.   S.   Bureau  of 'Mines 
to  deal   with   cases  of  asphyxiation  by  mine  gases  and  consisted  of  the  five  representa- 
•  ,f  thr-  American  Medical  Association  on  the  First  Commission.     Its  report  was  pub- 
"lished  by  the  bureau  as  its  Technical  Paper  No.  77. 


126  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

the  association.  The  commission  voted  to  continue  its  existence, 
ready  to  respond  when  required.  (Dr.  Eeid  Hunt,  Harvard  Medical 
School,  secretary.) 

EDI- CATI ox  COMMITTEE  (COMMERCIAL  NATIONAL  SECTION). — Fred 
R.  Jenkins,  Commonwealth  Edison  Co.,  Chicago,  111.,  chairman.  A 
plan  of  educational  work  for  the  higher  training  and  improved 
efficiency  of  the  men  engaged  in  the  industry  was  inaugurated  by  the 
committee  in  November,  1915,  with  the  first  edition  of  the  "  Com- 
mercial engineering  course  "  (17  lessons),  followed  in  January,  HIT, 
by  the  "  Course  in  practical  electricity"  (10  lessons),  both  of  which 
have  been  frequently  revised  and  reprinted.  They  are  conducted  by 
correspondence.  A  list  of  the  subjects  covered  by  the  lessons  is  given 
in  the  1921  report  of  the  committee. 

ACCOUNTING  EDUCATION  COMMITTEE  (ACCOUNTING  NATIONAL  SEC- 
TION).— Fred  II.  Jenkins,  Common  wealth  Edison  Co.,  Chicago,  111., 
chairman.  This  committee,  appointed  in  1916  to  select,  prepare, 
publish,  and  exploit  among  members  suitable  accounting  courses  for 
persons  engaged  in  the  industry,  has  since  1917  conducted  two  home- 
study  accounting  courses,  viz,  an  elementary  accounting  course  (in 
7  lessons)  and  an  advanced  course  in  electric  utility  accounting,  pre- 
pared by  a  number  of  specialists  (to  be  completed  in  86  lessons  by 
October,  1921).  A  list  of  the  subjects  covered  by  the  lessons  is  given 
in  the  committee's  report  for  1921. 

BONUS  SYSTEM  COMMITTEE  (ACCOUNTING  NATIONAL  SECTION).- — 
A.  H.  S.  Cantlin,  Pennsylvania  Power  &  Light  Co.,  Allentown,  Pa., 
chairman.  Appointed  in  1919  to  investigate  and  report  on  bonus 
systems  among  central  stations,  this  committee's  work  is  limit-, 
the  departments,  from  meter  reading  to  clerical  work  and  collection 
of  accounts,  and  does  not  include  salesmen,  power  plants,  linemen, 
etc.  It  has  investigated  the  extent  of  actual  use  of  such  systems  in 
the  companies  serving  cities  with  populations  of  oO.OOn  or  more  or 
having  10,000  kilowatts  or  more  of  generating  equipment  installed, 
and  has  described  and  discussed  the  systems  found  in  the  reports 
which  it  presented  in  1920  and  1921. 

COMPENSATION  or  SALESMEN  COMMITTEE  (COMMERCIAL  NATIONAL 
SECTION.) — L.  E.  Wallis,  Edison  Co.  of  Boston,  chairman.  Appoint- 
ed to  determine  some  points  of  relationship  which  compensation  of 
salesmen  should  bear  to  the  qualifications  required  in  performing 
the  various  classes  of  work,  to  sales  opportunities,  and  to  net  sales, 
the  committee  has  secured  data  by  questionnaires  sent  to  all  company 
members  serving  a  population  of  100,000  or  more,  and  has  analyzed 
the  answers  in  its  1921  report. 

NATIONAL  FIRE  PROTECTION  ASSOCIATION. 

87  Milk  Street,  Boston,  Mass.     Franklin  H.- Went  worth,  secre- 
tary-treasurer. 

Organized  in  1895  to  promote  the  science  and  improve  the  met: 
of  fire  protection  and  prevention,  to  obtain  and  circulate  information 
on  these  subjects,  and  to  secure  the  cooperation  of  its  members  in 
establishing  proper  safeguards  against  loss  of  life  and  property  by 
fire.  There  are  135  members  (annual  dues,  $60)  and  about  4.500  as- 
sociates (annual  dues,  $10).  The  members  are  national  institutes, 
societies,  and  associations  (e.  g.,  of  engineers  and  manufacturers) 
having  a  direct  interest  in  protection  of  life  and  property  against 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  127 

fire.  State  associations  for  reduction  of  fire  waste,  insurance  boards 
and  associations;  associates  are  other  organizations,  corporations, 
and  individuals.  Chapters  have  been  organized  in  Chicago,  New 
York,  Oregon,  San  Francisco,  Seattle,  Spokane,  and  Tacoma. 

A  three-day  convention  is  held  annually,  at  which  reports  on  the 
various  standards  for  protection  against  fire  are  presented  by  com- 
mittees of  experts  and  discussed  by  the  convention  before  adoption. 
The  following  committees  are  specially  concerned  with  investigations 
of  industrial  hazards:  Safety  to  life.  Manufacturing  risks  and  spe- 
cial hazards.  Gases.  Hazardous  chemicals  and  explosives,  Inflam- 
mable liquids.  Other  committees  are  concerned  with  fire-prevention 
apparatus  The  committee  reports  are  published  in  the  Proceedings 
of  the  annual  meetings  (for  members  only). 

The  Electrical  Committee  18  of  the  association  is  carrying  on  the 

work  of  revision  of  the  National  Electrical  [Fire]  Code  (regulations 

for  electric  wiring  and  apparatus)  originally  drafted  in  1897  by  the 

National  Conference  on  Standard  Electrical  Rules  and  adopted  by 

the  National  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters.     The  1920  revision  has 

been  approved  as  "  American  standard'1  by  the  American  Engineer- 

•  1s  Committee,  the  association  JDeing  sponsor  for  the  elec- 

i  tire  cod**  in  the  safety-code  program  of  that  committee.    It  has 

!  as  sponsor  for  the  safety  code  on  stairways  to  be 

prepari  *-1  und<  r  the  :-;mu>  auspices. 

A  list  of  the  standard  regulations  for  fire  protection  and  the  safe- 
gua;  -  3,  reoommeaded  by  the  association  and  adopted 

as  the  official  standard  of  the  National  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters, 
publications  available  for  free  distribution  or  for  sale,  is 
contained  in  a  pamphlet  entitled  "The  story  of  the  National  Fire 
"Pro-'  iation,  and  list  of  its  publications,"  obtainable  on 

application  at  the  executive  office. 

NATIONAL  FOUNDERS*  ASSOCIATION. 

South  La  Salle  Til    J.  M.  Taylor,  secretary. 


the  so-called  New  York  agreement,  which  was  in  force 
until  >  hen  it  was  abrogated.     Since  that  time  the  association 

.'pi-rated  independently  of  the  union  and  has  adopted  the  open- 
shop  policy.  In  conjunction  with  the  National  Metal  Trades  Asso- 
ciation it  '  publishes  The  Open-Shop  Kcrieir  in  advocacy  of  this 
policy.  It  is  a  member  association  of  the  National  Industrial  Con- 
ference Board. 

COMMITTEE  ox  SAFETY  AND  SANITATION. — Appointed  in  1912  under 
the  chairmanship  of  Magnus  W.  Alexander,  this  committee  investi- 
gated each  specific  hazard  in  the  foundry  industry  and  appropriate 
means  for  effective  safeguard  against  it,  and  issued  a  bulletin  on  the 
subject.  These  were  combined  in  1915  to  form  a  handbook  entitled 
"Safety  in  the  foundry,"  by  M.  W.  Alexander  (202  p.).  It  has 

Kl  The  following-  associations,  formerly  members  of  the  National  Conference,  are  repre- 
sented on  this  committee :  American  Electric  Railway  Association.  American  Institute 
of  Kifctrical  Engineer*,  Associated  Factory  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Companies,  National 
Association  of  Electrical  Inspectors.  National  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters,  National  Elec- 
tric Light  Association,  National  Electrical  Contractors'  Association, 


128  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

developed  a  number  of  safety  appliances,  such  as  goggles,  foundry 
shoes  and  leggings,  ladder  feet,  respirators,  etc.  In  1914  this  com- 
mittee invited  similar  committees  of  other  associations  to  meet  with 
it  and  as  a  result  of  these  meetings  the  Conference  Board  on  Safety 
and  Sanitation  was  formed.  (See  p.  95.) 

In  1917  the  National  Founders'  Association,  in  conjunction  with 
the  American  Foundry-men's  Association,  established  a  foundry  code 
.on  safety  and  sanitation  and  several  States  have  since  used  it  as  the 
basis  for  framing  their  foundry  safety  rules  and  regulations.  These 
two  associations  are  joint  sponsors  for  future  revisions  of  the  code 
under  the  auspices  of  the  American  Engineering  Standards  Com- 
mittee. 

NATIONAL  INDUSTRIAL  CONFERENCE  BOARD. 

10  East  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Magnus  W. 
Alexander,  managing  director.  (Branch  office.  Southern 
Building,  Washington,  D.  C.) 

A  cooperative  body  composed  of  representatives  of  national  and 
State  industrial  associations,  and  of  closely  allied  engineering  socie- 
ties of  a  national  character,  organized  in  May,  1916,  to  provide  a 
clearing  house  of  information,  a  forum  for  discussion,  and  machin- 
ery for  cooperative  action  on  matters  that  vitally  affect  the  industrial 
development  of  the  Nation.  The  stated  objects  of  the  board  are: 

(1)  To  make  impartial  investigations  in  the  field  of  industrial  economies, 
and  to  cooperate  to  this  end  with  individuals,  institutions,  associations,  and 
agencies  of  Government. 

(2)  To  aid  in  securing,  on  the  basis  of  established  economic  facts  underly- 
ing  and    affecting  industrial   conditions,   joint   deliberation    of   manufacturers 
and  associations  of  manufacturers  in  the  United  States. 

(3)  To  secure,  analyze,  and  disseminate  information  concerning  industrial 
problems  and  experience  in  the  United  States  and  other  countries. 

(4)  To   promote   good   understanding   and   friendly    relations   between   em- 
ployees and  employers  for  the  benefit  of  both,  and  between  those  engaged  in 
industry  and  the  public  for  the  general  good  of  the  community. 

(o)  To  make  the  results  of  its  research  and  collective  experiences  available 
to  Governmental  agencies  when  industrial  and  economic  legislation  and  poli- 
cies are  being  formulated,  in  an  endeavor  to  secure  sympathetic  consideration 
of  its  views  and  opinions,  and 

(6)  In  general,  to  encourage  and  promote  the  sound  development  of  Ameri- 
can industry  by  all  proper  and  legitimate  means. 

The  affiliated  organizations  (1921)  are: 

American  Cotton  Manufacturers'  Association. 

American  Electric  Railway  Association. 

American  Hardware  Manufacturers'  Association. 

American  Malleable  Castings  Association. 

American  Paper  and  Pulp  Association. 

American  Pig  Iron  Association. 

Electrical  Manufacturers'  Club. 

Institute  of  Makers  of  Explosives. 

Manufacturing  Chemists'  Association  of  tbe  United  States., 

National  Association  of  Cotton  Manufacturers. 

National  Association  of  Finishers  of  Cotton  Fabrics. 

National  Association  of  Manufacturers. 

National  Association  of  Wool  Manufacturers. 

National  Automobile  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

National  Boot  and  Shoe  Manufacturers'  Association. 

National  Electric  Light  Association. 

National  Erectors'  Association, 

National  Founders'  Association. 

National  Implement  and  Vehicle  Association. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  129 

National  Industrial  Council. 

Railway  Car  Manufacturers'  Association. 

Rubber  Association  of  America  (Inc.). 

Silk  Association  of  America.. 

Tobacco  Merchants'  Association  of  the  United  States. 

United  Typothetae  of  America. 

Associated  Industries  of  Massachusetts. 

Associated  Industries  of  New  York  State  (Inc.). 

Illinois  Manufacturers'  Association. 

Manufacturers'  Association  of  Connecticut  (Inc.). 

The  Conference  Board  of  Physicians  in  Industry  (see  p.  95)  acts 
as  advisor  on  medical  problems  in  industry  to  the  National  Industrial 
Conference  Board. 

The  publications  of  the  board  consist  of  Research  Reports,  Nos. 
1-38 ;  Special  Reports,  Nos.  1-18 ;  and  Industrial  News  Survey,  issued 
weekly.  These  include: 

A  series  of  Research  Reports  on  "  Hours  of  work  as  related  to  out- 
put and  health  of  workers  "  in  various  industries,  viz :  cotton  manu- 
facturing (No.  4),  boot  and  shoe  industry  (No.  7),  wool  manufac- 
turing (No.  12),  silk  manufacturing  (No.  16),  and  metal  manufactur- 
ing industries  (No.  18)  ;  "  The  hours  of  work  problem  in  five  major  in- 
dustries" (No.  27);  "Practical  experience  with  the  work  week  of 
48  hours  or  less"  (No.  32)  ;  also  "Analysis  of  British  war-time  re- 
ports on  hours  of  work  as  related  to  output  and  fatigue"  (No.  2). 

A  series  of  Research  Reports  on  "Changes  in  the  cost  of  living" 
since  July,  1914,  now  issued  every  four  months,  i.  e.,  to  March,  July, 
and  November  (Nos.  9,  14,  17,  19,25,  28,  30,  33,  and  36). 

A  series  of  local  studies  of  "  The  cost  of  living  among  wage-earn- 
ers": Fall  River,  Mass.,  October,  1919  (Research  Report  No.  22); 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  November,  1919  (Research  Report  No.  24)  ;  North 
Hudson  County,  N.  J.,  Januar}^  1920  (Special  Report  No.  7)  ;  Green- 
ville and  Pelzer,  S.  C..  and  Charlotte,  N.  C.,  January-February,  1920 
(Special  Report  No.  8);  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May,  1920  (Special  Re- 
port No.  13)  ;  Worcester,  Mass.,  June,  1920  (Special  Report  No.  16). 

Research  reports  on  the  following  special  subjects :  "  War-time 
employment  of  women  in  the  metal  trades  "  (No.  8)  ;  "  Rest  periods 
for  industrial  workers"  (No.  13);  "Works'  councils  in  the  United 
States"  (No.  21).  and  supplement,  "A  works'  council  in  the  United 
States"  (No.  26);  "Practical  experience  with  profit-sharing  in  in- 
dustrial establishments"  (No.  29);  "Health  service  in  industry" 
(No.  34)  :  "  Wage  changes  in  industr}^,  September,  1914,  to  Decem- 
ber. 1920  "  (No.  35)  ;  "  Cost  of  health  service  in  industry  "  (No.  37) ; 
"  Experience  with  trade-union  agreements,  clothing  industries  "  (No. 
38). 

A  complete  list,  with  prices,  is  printed  at  the  end  of  the  latest  re- 
search report. 

The  activities  of  the  Conference  Board  on  Training  of  Appren- 
tices 20  were  merged  with  those  of  the  National  Industrial  Conference 
Board  in  1920. 

20  Organized  March,  1915  (Magnus  W.  Alexander,  secretary)  ;  composed  of  represen- 
tatives of  National  Association  of  Manufacturers,  National  Founders'  Association, 
National  Metal  Trades  Association,  National  Machine  Tool  Builder*'  Association,  United 
Typothetae  and  Franklin  Clubs  of  America,  American  Foundrymen's  Association.  Publi- 
cations: Practical  apprenticeship,  a  bulletin  of  information  on  the  training  of  industrial 
workers:  Bulletin  No.  1,  Necessity  of  apprenticeship  (1916,  18  p.);  Bulletin  No.  2, 
Fundamentals  of  apprenticeship  (1917,  30  p.).  (Prepared  by  Henry  P.  Porter.) 

70723°— Bull.  299—21 9 


130  111.    ^OXOFFICIAL    AUKN011 

NATIONAL  MACHINE  TOOL  BUILDERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

'  818  Provident  Bank  Building,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Ernest  F. 
DuBrul,  general  manager. 

This  association  is  joint  sponsor  for  the  safety  code  on  power  drive 
of  machine  tools  which  is  being  prepared  wider  the  inspires  and 
rules  of  procedure  of  the  American  Engineering  Standards  Commit- 
tee. 

A  special  committee  appointed  by  the  association  made  the  pre- 
liminary study  on  which  was  based  the  a  Safety  code  for  the  use  and 
care  of 'abrasive  wheels"  issued  by  the  Grinding  Wheel  Manufac- 
turers' Association  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  (See  p.  103.) 
The  Safety  Committee  of  the  association  has  continued  its  coopera- 
tion in  conducting  the  tests  and  compiling  the  tables  for  later  edi- 
tions. 

NATIONAL  METAL  TRADES  ASSOCIATION. 

People's  Gas  Building,  Chicago,  111.    Homer  D.  Sayre,  secretary. 

An  employers'  association  organized  in  1899  "  for  national,  united 
action  in  handling  unjust  collective  demands  of  organized  labor  and  in 
treating  with  the  labor  question  generally."  Its  annual  convention  is 
held  in  April,  generally  in  New  York,  and  a  synopsis  of  proceedings 
is  published.  There  are  about  1,000  members  and  28  local  branches. 
The  association  is  active  in  the  open-shop  campaign,  and  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  National  Founders'  Association  publishes  the  OJH'H. 
Shop  Review. 

Industrial  education  has  been  a  matter  of  special  concern  to  the 
association  for  many  years.  One  of  its  early  efforts  in  this  field  con- 
sisted in  securing  contributions  from  its  members  for  equipment  and 
scholarships  at  Winona  Technical  Institute,  Indianapolis,  and  in  giv- 
ing financial  support  arid  other  assistance  to  the  institute  for  the 
maintenance  and  management  of  a  metal  trades  department.  In  1906 
the  first  steps  towards  the  inauguration  of  the  cooperative  course  in 
engineering  at  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  under  Dean  Herman 
Schneider,  were  taken  at  a  conference  of  the  authorities  of  the  Engi- 
neering College  with  the  local  branch  of  the  association,  whose  mem- 
bers agreed  to  open  their  shops  to  students ;  and  as  a  result  of  Dean 
Schneider's  address  on  the  subject  at  the  1908  convention  the  cooper- 
ative plan  was  introduced  into  the  public  schools  of  Fitchburg,  Mass. 
In  the  same  year  the  Chicago  branch  developed  a  plan  of  cooperation 
with  Lewis  Institute.  Appropriations  were  made  in  1911,  1914,  and 
1915  for  advancing  the  work  undertaken  by  the  National  Society  for 
the  Promotion  of  Industrial  Education.  (See  p.  185.)  Reports  of 
committees  on  industrial  education  and  apprenticeship  were  pub- 
lished annually  in  the  synopsis  of  proceedings  up  to  and  including 
1917,  in  which  year  the  Smith-Hughes  Act  was  passed. 

COMMITTEE  ON  INDUSTRIAL  EDUCATION. — Harold  C.  Smith,  Illinois 
Tool  Works,  Chicago,  111.,  chairman.  The  present  committee,  which 
has  reported  annually  since  1919,  has  established  at  the  national  office 
of  the  association  a  ^Department  of  Industrial  Education  (Philip  C. 
Molter,  superintendent)  and  has  had  an  individual  survey  made  of 
the  plants  of  the  members  of  the  association—about  1,000  in  number 
(located  east  of  the  Mississippi  River) — for  the  purpose  of  ascertain- 
ing what  particular  system  of  training  was  adaptable  to  a  particular 
plant. 


ASSOCIATION'S,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  131 

A  session  on  April  21  at  the  1921  convention  was  devoted  to  reports 
and  papers  on  industrial  education. 

COMMITTKF  OF  AYouKs'  COUNCILS  IN  1'HE  METAL  TiiADKs  made  an  in- 
vestigation into  the  question  of  employee  representation  and  a  session 
was  devoted  to  discussion  of  the  subject  at  the  1920  convention. 

NATIONAL  RESEARCH  COUNCIL. 

1701  Massachusetts  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C.     Vernon  Kel- 
logg, permanent  secretary. 

Established  in  1916  under  the  congressional  charter  of  the  Na- 
tional Academy  of  Sciences  and  organ ized  with  the  cooperation  of 
the  national  scientific  and  technical  societies  of  the  United  States. 
During  the  war  the  National  Research  Council  acted,  in  a  cooperative 
capacity,  as  the  Department  of  Science  and  Research  of  the  Council 
of  Xational  Defense;  also,  as  the  Science  and  Research  Division  of 
the  United  States  Signal  Corps.  In  this  connection,  during  the  war, 
it  received  a  considerable  part  of  its  support  from  the  Government, 
but  since  its  reorganization  after  the  war  it  derives  its  support  wholly 
from  private  sources.  As  now  orgaimed,  the  technical  work  of  the 
council  is  (iistrii)uted  among  its  ]:>  divisions.  6  of  which  deal  with 
the  more  general  aspects  arid  contacts  of  research  (the  divisions  of 
Federal  Relations,  Foreign  Relation-.  Sink's  Relations,  Educational 
Relations,  Research  Extension,  and  the  Research  Information  Serv- 
ice) and  7  with  particular  fields  of  science  and  technology  (viz, 
Physical  sciences,  Engineering,  Chemistry  and  chemical  technology, 
Geology  and  geogTMphy,  Medical  sciences,  Ui<>!»o-y  and  agriculture, 
Anthropology  and  pny-  hology ).  The  personnel  of  these  divisions 
and  numerous  commit  tees  is  given  in  a  pamphlet,  "National  Research 
Council:  organization  and  members,  11)20-21"  (45  p.). 

DIVISION  OF  AxTiiKotH»m<iY  ANO  PsYcin .>.MH;Y. — C.  F.  Seashore, 
chairman  (1921-22).  This  is  the  successor  of  the  Psychology  Com- 
mittee formed  in  April,  1917,  to  organize  and  supervise  psychological 
research  and  service  in  the  war  emergency  and  of  which  various 
committees  on  military  personnel  problems  appointed  by  the  Ameri- 
can Psychological  Association  became,  subcommittees.  Among  these 
were  (1)  the  committee  on  the  psychological  examination  of  recruits 
which  developed  the  plan  of  mental  testing  subsequently  applied  to 
the  Army  by  a  division  of  psychology  created  in  the  Office  of  the 
Surgeon  General,21  (2)  the  committee  on  the  selection  of  men  for 
requiring  special  aptitude,  from  which  developed  through 
tivity  o\  (wo  of  its  members — F,  L.  Thorndike  and  Walter  Dill 
Scott-^the  Committee  on  Classification  of  Personnel  in  the  Army.22 
Other  committees  studied  problems  of  vision,  reeducation,  incapacity, 
emotional  stability,  etc.;  and  psychological  service  was  rendered  to 
the  Committee  on  Education  and  Special  Training  of  the  War  De- 
partment and  other  military  agencies.  The  report  of  the  Psychology 
Committee,  by  Robert  M.  Yerkes,  chairman,  was  published  in  the 
Psychological'  Review,  March,  1919  (v.  26,  p.  83-149),  and  issued 

21  Tho  tests  usori  are  given  in  "Army  mental  tests,"  by  C.  S.  Yoakum  and  R.  M.  Yerkes 
f  NY'.v    York,   II.   Holt.  &  Co.,   1920);   the.  oineial   report,   ''  Psychological   examining   in   the 
United     Stales    Army,"    consisting    of     (1)     history,     organizations,    and    materials,     (2) 
methods,  ;nul  (H)   results,  was  published  as  Memoir®  of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences 

(V.      •  . 

22  An  official  account  of  the  work  of  this  committee  was  published  by  the  War  Depart- 
ment under  the  title,  "The  personnel  system  of  the  United  States  Army  "  (1919,  2  vols.). 


132  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

also  as  No.  2  of  the  reprint  and  circular  series  of  the  National  Re- 
search Council. 

This  division  acts  in  an  advisory  capacity  on  research  projects  in 
its  field.  Committees  on  the  following  subjects  organized  under  it 
deal  with  various  phases  of  perbonnel  research: 

(a)  Anthropological  and  psychological  study  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States,  with  a  subcommittee  dealing  with  standardization  of 
procedures  for  determining  race  characters. 

(b)  Superior  attainment  of  college  students. — This  committee  is 
conducting  an  organized  search  for  research  talent  among  college 
students,  through  committees  organized  for  the  purpose  in  the  various 
universities  and  colleges.     For  the  use  of  these  committees  it  has 
prepared  a  printed  blank  for  "Analyzed  rating  of  fitness  for  graduate 
study."     It  proposes  to  issue  shortly  a  series  of  bulletins  on  "  Re- 
search opportunities"  (including  those  in  industrial  establishments), 
eight  of  which  are  now  ready  for  the  printer. 

(c)  Prediction  of  success  of  students  entering  higher  institutions. — 
This  committee  is  concerned  with  the  development  of  tests  of  fitness, 
e.  g.,  advising  in  the  investigation  of  the  use  of  tests  for  engineering 
students  being  made  under  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Engi- 
neering Education.     (See  p.  153.)     It  has  prepared  and  published 
two  "  comprehension  tests." 

(d)  National  intelligence  tests. — This  committee,  under  a  grant 
from  the  General  Education  Board,  prepared  an  adaptation  for 
school  purposes  of  the  group  intelligence  tests  used  in  the  examina- 
tion of  recruits  in  the  Army.     These  tests,  with  a  manual  of  direc- 
tions, are  published  by  the  World  Book  Co.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.     An 
account  of  this  work  is  given  in  a  paper  entitled,  "  The  national  intel- 
ligence tests,"  by  Guy  M.  Whipple,  in  Journal  of  Educational  Re- 
search (v.  4,  No.  1,  p".  16-31),  June,  1921  (issued  as  a  reprint  by  the 
committee). 

(e)  Child  welfare  research. 

(f)  Problems  of  military  psychology,  including  methods  of  rating 
in  the  Army. 

RESEARCH  INFORMATION  SERVICE. — Robert  M.  Yerkes,  chairman 
and  resident  director.  A  clearing  house  for  information  about  scien- 
tific methods  and  results  and  their  practical  applications  in  engineer- 
ing, industry,  and  education.  This  service  maintains  a  biographical 
file  of  scientists  who  are  qualified  by  training  and  experience  to  con- 
duct research  in  the  physical  or  biological  sciences  or  their  respective 
technologies.  Approximately  13,000  persons  in  the  United  States 
are  already  listed,  and  the  data  about  them  are  being  arranged  by 
means  of  the  Findex  system  for  ready  reference  and  mechanical  sort- 
ing to  meet  the  informational  demands  of  scientific  and  industrial 
agencies. 

COMMITTEE  ON  FOOD  AND  NUTRITION. — J.  R.  Murlin,  University  of 
Rochester,  chairman.  This  committee  under  the  Division  of  Biology 
and  Agriculture  has  formulated  an  extensive  and  detailed  program  of 
research  for  which  it  is  endeavoring  to  secure  support.  Among  the 
projects  outlined  by  the  subcommittee  on  human  nutrition  are  (1)  the 
food  requirements  of  children  of  different  ages,  including  the  effects 
of  muscular  work  upon  children;  (2)  nutrition  in  relation  to  the 
health  and  efficiency  of  industrial  workers. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC. 

COMMITTEE  ox  INDUSTRIAL  PERSONNEL  RESEARCH. — Alfred 
Flinn,  Engineering  Foundation,  New  York,  secretary.  This  com- 
mittee represented  the  council  in  planning  and  conducting  the  con- 
ferences held  in  November,  1920,  and  March,  1921,  which  resulted  in 
the  formation  of  the  Personnel  Research  Federation.  (See  p.  143.) 

NATIONAL  RETAIL  DRY  GOODS  ASSOCIATION. 

200  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Organized  in  1911  to  promote  and  protect  the  interests  of  retail 
dry  goods  merchants  throughout  the  United  States.  Annual  con- 
ventions are  held  in  New  York  City;  there  are  also  spring  and  fall 
meetings  which  may  be  held  elsewhere.  At  the  present  time  (March, 
1921)  the  association  has  2,234  members. 

In  addition  to  subsidiary  groups  devoted  to  financial  and  account- 
ing problems,  advertising,  and  transportation  and  shipping  ques- 
tions, there  is  a  department  of  education  under  the  direction  of  Mrs. 
Lucinda  W.  Prince,  director  of  the  Prince  School  of  Education  for 
Store  Service,  Boston,  which  conducts  an  information  service  on 
matters  relating  to  training  for  retail  selling,  and  holds  special 
sessions  on  educational,  employment,  and  research  work  in  stores 
at  the  annual  conventions. 

A  Committee  for  the  Study  of  Wage  Problems  appointed  by  the 
board  of  directors  in  October,  1919,  published  a  "  Preliminary  re- 
port of  commission  and  bonus  methods"  (51  p.)  in  May,  1920. 

BUREAU  OF  RESEARCH  AND  INFORMATION. — W.  A.  Fitzgerald,  man- 
ager. This  bureau,  maintained  at  the  New  York  office  to  collect 
data  on  the  various  problems  of  the  retail  dry  goods  trade,  including 
personnel  administration,  issued  to  members  in  February,  1921,  a 
confidential  report  on  "•  Bonus  methods  for  delivery  department 
employees.'-  containing  a  description  of  methods  used  in  15  different 
stores. 

NATIONAL  SAFETY  COUNCIL. 

1C>S  North  Michigan  Avenue,  Chicago,  111.     C.  W.  Price,  general 
manager ;  Sidney  J.  Williams,  secretary  and  chief  engineer. 

The  first  cooperative  safety  congress  was  held  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Association  of  Iron  and  Steel  Electrical  Engineers  at  Mil- 
waukee, Wis.,  September  30  to  October  5,  1912,  and  a  committee 
appointed  at  that  congress  was  authorized  to  prepare  plans  for  a 
national  society,  which  was  officially  organized  as  the  National  Coun- 
cil for  Industrial  Safety  in  September,  1913.  As  the  scope  of  its 
activities  broadened,  the  name  was  changed  to  National  Safety  Coun- 
cil in  the  following  year.  This  council  is  an  association  of  companies 
and  individuals  interested  in  promoting  safety  in  industrial  establish- 
ments and  also  on  the  streets  and  in  the  home.  Its  field  is  the  pre- 
vention of  accidents,  with  related  activities  affecting  the  health,  com- 
fort, and  welfare  of  industrial  workers. 

The  present  membership  includes  about  4,000  industrial  concerns, 
operating  more  than  7,500  plants  and  employing  more  than  6,000,000 
workers.  To  these  it  renders  a  safety  service,  consisting  of  posters 
for  the  bulletin  board,  a  monthly  magazine  entitled  National  Safety 
/\>/r,s',  "Safe  practices"  pamphlets,  and  consultation.  Membership 
dues  are  based  on  the  nature  and  extent  of  the  service  rendered  and 
the  number  of  employees  on  the  pay  roll  of  the  concern. 


134  III.    NONOFFIOIAL   AGKNCH' 

The  council  also  organizes  schools  for  foremen  and  safety  super- 
visors and  has  published  in  loose-leaf  form  outlines  of  lectures  for 
such  schools. 

For  Greater  Mew  York  and  the  adjacent  manufacturing  district 
of  New  Jersey,  the  Metropolitan  Safety  Council  has  l>een  formed,  by 
the  National  Safety  Council  and  the  Safety  Institute  of  America  (see 
p.  149)  jointly;  and  in  order  to  unify  the  work  of  the  two  organiza- 
tions and  prevent  duplication  they  have  entered  into  an  agreement 
that  all  industrial  plants  in  this  district,  which  are  members  of  either, 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  joint  service  of  both.  This  local  council  con 
ducted  lecture  courses  for  foremen  during  1920-21  at  various  phi  res 
in  its  territory. 

Safety-  congresses  have  been  held  annually  since  1912  in  different 
cities  and  the  proceedings  published.  The  present  organization 
of  the  congress  consists  of  Engineering,  Public  Safety,  Education, 
Health  Service,  and  Women  in  Industry  sections,  and  the  follow- 
ing sections  devoted  to  safety  in  particular  industries,  viz :  Auto- 
motive, Cement,  Chemical,  Construction,  Electric  Railway,  Mr 
Mining,  Packers  and  Tanners,  Paper  and  Pulp,  Public  Utilities, 
Rubber,  Steam  Railroad,  Textile,  Woodworking.  Meetings  on  spe- 
cial topics  are  also  held,  <?.  g..  at  the  ninth  annual  safety  congress, 
1920,  on  employees'  benefit  associations,  and  employees"  publications. 

The  National  Safety  Council  is  sponsor  for  the  safety  codes  on 
construction  work,  paper  and  pulp  mills,  and  power  presses,  noAv  in 
preparation  by  sectional  committees  under  the  auspices  and  rules  of 
procedure  of  the  American  Engineering  Standards  Committee 
p.  72)  and  is  joint  sponsor  for  the  textiles  safety  code  and  for  the 
standard  color  scheme  for  pipe  lines.  It  has  been  recommended  and 
was  approved  conditionally  in  June,  1920,  as  sponsor  for  the  safety 
codes  on  blast  furnaces  and  blooming  and  rolling  mills  but  has  not 
yet  accepted  these  sponsorships. 

ENGINEERING  DEPARTMENT.— Created  in  1917,  this  department 
consists  of  safety  engineers  who  have  in  charge  the  preparation  of  all 
the  bulletins  and  "  Safe  practices "  pamphlets  and  also  serve  the 
membership  of  the  council  by  investigating  and  answering  all  in- 
quiries for  technical  information. 

"  Safe  practices "  is  a  series  of  pamphlets,  in  each  of  which  a 
particular  hazard  is  discussed  in  detail  and  the  safe  practices  in  the 
construction  and  operation  of  the  particular  equipment  involved 
are  described.  They  represent  the  results  of  extensive  research 
work  by  the  engineers  of  the  department,  with  the  cooperation  of 
a  conference  committee  of  safety  engineers.  The  following  num- 
bers have  been  issued : 

No.  1.  Ladders;  No.  2,  Stairs  and  stairways;  No.  8,  Boiler  rooms;  No.  4, 
Cranes ;  No.  5,  Belt  shifters  and  belt  shippers ;  No.  6,  Knots,  bends,  hitches,  and 
slinks;  No.  7,  Belts  and  belt  guards;  No.  8.  Shafting,  couplings,  pulleys,  gearing; 
No.  9,  Engine  guarding  and  engine  stops ;  No.  10,  Oiling  devices  and  oilers ; 
No.  11,  Floors  and  flooring;  No.  12,  Scaffolds  (for  industrial  plant  use)  ;  No. 
13,  Grinding  wheels;  No.  14,  Goggles;  No.  15,  Freight  elevators;  No.  16,  Safe 
clothing:  X->.  17.  Yards:  No.  18,  Power  presses:  No.  10,  Exits,  fire  alarms  and 
fire  drills;  No.  20,  Woodworking  machinery  and  equipment;  No.  21,  Accident 
records;  No.  22.  Shop  lighting;  No.  2H.  Gas  and  Heotric  welding;  No.  24,  Fire 
extinguishment;  No.  25,  Acids  and  caustics  (industrial  plants);  No.  26,  Ma- 
nila and  wire  rope;  No.  27,  Drinking  water,  wash  and  locker  rooms,  and  toilet 
facilities;  No.  28,  Commercial  explosives;  No.  20,  Electrical  equipment  in  in- 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  135 

dust-rial  plants;  No.  30,  Trucks  and  wheelbarrows;  No.  31,  Fire  causes  ami 
prevention:  No.  32,  Exhaust  systems:  No.  33,  Hoisting  apparatus ;  No.  34,  Indus- 
trial explosion  hazards:  gases,  vapors,  flammable  liquids  and  dusts;  No.  35, 
Conveyers;  No.  36,  Fire  brigades;  No.  37,  Industrial  ventilation;  No.  38,  Safety 
bulletins  and  bulletin  boards;  No.  39,  Machine  shop  machinery;  No.  40,  Sng- 
j?f-xtiot{  s\ -stems;  No.  41.  Hand  tools;  No.  42,  Industrial  safety  organisation;  No. 
43.  Passenger  elevators;  No.  44,  The  prevention  of  skin  troubles  from  cutting 
oils  and  emulsions:  No.  45,  Industrial  housekeeping. 

Sectional:  P.  and  P.  1,  Paper  and  pulp  mills;  Me.  1,  Cleaning  and  finishing 
rooms  in  foundries;  Me.  2,  Blast  furnaces;  M.  1,  Underground  mine  cars  and 
Imulage. 

HEALTH  SERVICE  SECTION. — This  section  originated  at  an  indus- 
trial hygiene  session  at  the  annual  safety  conference  in  1914  and  has 
held  meetings  at  each  subsequent  congress.  At  the  1919  congress 
it  appointed  a  committee  to  investigate  and  report  on  the  best 
modes  of  preventing  and  controlling  skin  diseases  in  industry  and 
the  best  methods  of  treatment.  The  questionnaire  sent  out  by  this 
committee  is  given  in  Modern  Medicine  (v.  2,  No.  2,  Feb.,  1920, 
p.  150). 

NATIONAL  SOCIETY  FOR  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION. 

140  West  Forty-second  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Miss  Clotilde 
Ware,  oflu-o  secretary. 

Organized  in  1006  as  the  National  Society  for  the  Promotion  of 
Industrial  Education  :  present  name  adopted  in  1918.  The  objects  of 
this  society  fire  (1)  to  afford  all  those  who  are  interested,  opportuni- 
ties for  the  presentation  and  discussion  of  the  various  problems  of 
Ao'Yilional  education;  (2)  to  make  available  the  results  of  the  ex- 
perience of  those  working  in  the  various  fields  of  vocational  educa- 
tion, both  in  this  country  and  abroad.  At  the  present  time  (1921) 
there  are  2.200  members,  including  educators,  industrial  managers, 
manufacturers,  labor  leaders,  social  workers,  etc. 

Annual  conventions  have  been  held  in  various  cities,  latterly  in 
February.  The  pro* -cod ings  are  issued  in  the -society's  series  of  Bul- 
letins. The  19*20  convention  at  Chicago  was  a  joint  convention  with 
the  Vocational  Education  Association  of  the  Middle  West. 

A  special  feature  of  the  conventions  at  Richmond,  Va.  (1914), 
Minneapolis  (1016),  and  Indianapolis  (1917)  was  the  holding  of  ses- 
sions devoted  to  the  results  of  a  vocational  education  survey  of  the 
city  made  in  advance  of  the  convention.  In  the  case  of  the  first  two 
cities,  the  survey  was  made  under  the  direction  of  a  general  survey 
committee  of  the  society  with  funds  provided  locally  and  in  coopera- 
tion with  a  local  survey  committee.  The  report  of  the  Richmond 
(Va.),  survey  was  published  as  Bulletin  No.  162  of  United  States 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics;  the  Minneapolis  survey  as  Bulletin  No. 
21  of  the  society  (also  in  revised  form  as  Bulletin  No.  199  of  United 
States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics).  The  Indianapolis  survey  for 
vocational  education  was  the  sixth  of  a  series  of  seven  vocational 
surveys  in  Indiana  undertaken  by  the  State  Board  of  Education, 
Indiana  University,  and  local  education  authorities  jointly,  with  the 
cooperation  of  this  society,  the  reports  of  which  were  published  by 
State  Board  of  Education  as  the  Survey  Series  of  its  Educational 
Bulletins. 

An  industrial  art  survey  was  undertaken  by  the  society  in  1920-21, 
The  work  has  been  completed  but  is  not  yet  published. 


136  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

Employment  managers'  conferences  were  held  in  connection  with 
the  annual  conventions  at  Minneapolis  (January,  1916)  and  Indian- 
apolis (February,  1917).  The  proceedings  of  the  first  of  these,  pub- 
lished as  Bulletin  of  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 
No.  196,  are  appended  to  the  society's  Bulletin  No.  22 ;  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  second  are  included  in  its  Bulletin  No.  24  (p.  225-291). 

A  conference  on  training  for  salesmanship  in  retail  stores  was  the 
first  session  of  the  1914  convention;  and  beginning  with  the  St.  Louis 
convention  of  1919,  section  meetings  have  been  held  on  commercial 
education,  devoted  largely  to  the  same  subject,  and  on  agricultural 
education,  in  addition  to  those  on  industrial  education,  to  which  the 
papers  and  discussions  at  the  conventions  had  mainly  been  confined 
in  previous  years. 

The  following  bulletins  are  studies  made  by  special  committees  of 
the  society  appointed  for  the  purposes  indicated  by  the  titles : 

No.  4.  Industrial  training  for  women.     By  Florence  M.  Marshall,   October, 

1907.  59  p. 

No.  8.  Education  of  workers  in  the  shoe  industry.    By  Arthur  D.  Dean.    Dec., 

1908.  110  p. 

No.  19.  Selection  and  training  of  teachers  for  State-aided  industrial  schools. 
By  C.  A.  Prosser  and  W.  A.  O'Leary.     Feb..  1914 ; -rev.  ed.  Feb..  1917.     <>4  p. 
No.  23.  Evening  vocational  courses  for  girls  and  women.     Feb.,  1917.     73  p 

The  proceedings  of  the  1920  convention  (Bulletin  No.  32)  contain 
reports  of  special  committees  on  the  following  subjects:  Vestibule 
and  upgrading  schools  (p.  86-97) ;  Vocational  education  in  the  con- 
tinuation schools  (p.  136-150)  ;  Vocational  training  for  women  in 
industry  (p.  151-158) ;  Vocational  education  in  high  schools  (p. 
159-183). 

NATIONAL  TUBERCULOSIS  ASSOCIATION. 

381  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Charles  T.  Hatfield, 
M.  D.,  managing  director. 

Originally  organized  as  the  National  Association  for  the  Study  and 
Prevention  of  Tuberculosis;  present  name  adopted  in  1918  and  asso- 
ciation incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Maine.  The  following  para- 
graphs summarize  only  the  special  activities  of  this  association  in 
the  industrial  field. 

In  December,  1916,  the  Framingham  Community  Health  and  Tu- 
berculosis Demonstration  was  initiated  by  the  association  with  a 
special  fund  of  $100,000  provided  by  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance 
Co.,  which  continues  to  finance  it,  as  an  intensive  experiment  to 
determine  whether  it  is  possible  to  reduce  substantially  the  mortality 
and  morbidity  of  tuberculosis,  particularly  in  industrial  communities. 
Its  executive  officer  is  Donald  B.  Armstrong,  M.  D.,  Community 
Health  Station,  Framingham,  Mass. 

The  results  of  the  experiment  are  set  forth  in  Framingham  Mono- 
graphs, Nos.  1-8,  subdivided  into  three  series,  viz :  General  series, 
Medical  series,  Sanitary  series,  of  which  No.  6  (Sanitary  series  II) 
published  September,  1919,  is  devoted  to  schools  and  factories.  The 
section  of  this  monograph  on  the  factories  includes  besides  a  general 
sanitary  study  of  the  great  majority  of  the  Framingham  industries, 
(1)  a  special  study  of  ventilation  in  certain  typical  plants,  where 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  137 

the  questions  of  dust,  fumes,  chemicals,  and  general  ventilation  were 
touched  upon,  carried  out  with  the  cooperation  of  the  New  York 
State  Commission  on  Ventilation  (see  p.  54),  and  (2)  a  special 
stud}T  of  safety  in  a  number  of  the  Framingham  plants,  conducted 
by  the  American  Museum  of  Safety.  (See  p.  149,  Safety  Institute  of 
America.) 

In  1918  the  association  detailed  its  field  secretary,  Dr.  H.  A.  Patti- 
son.  to  the  Federal  Board  of  Vocational  Education  to  study  the  prob- 
lem of  vocational  rehabilitation  in  the  case  of  tuberculous  soldiers 
and  sailors,  and  appointed  a  committee  to  direct  and  assist  him.  The 
results  of  this  work  were  published  as : 

V.  S.  Federal  Board  of  Vocational  Education.  Bulletin  No.  29  (Reeducation 
series  No.  5).  Treatment  and  training  for  the  tuberculous,  with  standards  by 
which  t<>  del  ermine  proper  training  and  occupations  for  the  tuberculous  sol- 
dier, sailor,  or  marine.  Mar.,  1919,  22  p. 

In  August,  1921,  the  association  began  an  investigation  of  the 
standards  of  employment  for  tuberculous  persons,  which  will  take 
about  three  years  to  complete.  The  study  will  involve  an  analysis 
of  the  operations  or  processes  of  the  leading  industries  to  determine 
what,  if  any,  are  their  peculiar  health  hazards  to  tuberculous  persons, 
or  persons  likely  to  become  tuberculous,  and  also  to  ascertain  in  what 
particular  departments  persons  who  have  had  tuberculosis  can  be 
employed. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MORTALITY  FROM  TUBERCULOSIS  IN  DUSTY  TRADES. — 
Dr.  Edward  R.  Baldwin,  Saranac  Lake,  X.  Y.,  chairman.  Appointed 
in  1917,  this  committee  has  concentrated  its  efforts  upon  an  investi- 
gation of  the  marble  and  granite  industries  of  Vermont  and  the  lime- 
stone industry  of  Indiana.  Two  preliminary  reports  were  published 
in  1911) — the  first  ('27  p.)  by  the  Working  Conditions  Service  of  the 
Tni ted  States  Department  of  Labor,  the  second  (24  p.)  by  the  Na- 
tional Tuberculosis  Association — which  are  largely  correspondence 
relating  to  the  plan  of  the  investigation  and  preliminary  data. 

Since  then  the  following  parts  of  the  Vermont  investigation  have 
been  completed:  (1)  A  statistical  survey,  by  Mr.  Sylvester  Schatt- 
schneider.  of  the  Prudential  Life  Insurance  Co.,  of  the  various  fea- 
tures of  the  industry,  and  house-to-house  visitation  of  the  granite 
cutters,  to  obtain  data  on  family  and  personal  histories,  housing  con- 
ditions, etc.;  (2)  a  study  of  the  mortality  records  of  the  State  of 
Vermont,  which  was  summarized  in  an  informal  report  to  the  asso- 
c  i  at  ion  in  1920,  by  Dr.  Frederick  L.  Hoffmann,  former  chairman  of 
the  committee.  The  results  of  the  medical  examinations,  about  500 
in  number,  were  reported  to  the  executive  committee  at  the  meeting 
of  the  association  in  June,  1921,  and  the  report  is  being  prepared 
for  publication  as  a  separate  pamphlet. 

In  conjunction  with  this  investigation  some  experimental  work 
has  been  carried  on  at  the  Saranac  Laboratory  under  a  Trudeau 
Foundation  fellowship  (see  p.  159)  by  Dr.  L.  U.  Gardner.  His  first 
results  were  published  in  the  American  Review  of  Tuberculosis 
(v.  4,  Xo.  10,  Dec.,  1920,  p.  734-755)  under  the  title  "  Studies  on  the 
relation  of  mineral  dusts  to  tuberculosis,  I.  The  relatively  early 
lesions  in  experimental  pneumokoniosis  produced  by  granite  inhala- 
tion and  their  influence  on  pulmonary  tuberculosis." 


138  111.    NONOFFICTAL,    AC.KNX'TKS. 

NATIONAL  VOCATIONAL  GUIDANCE  ASSOCIATION. 

Anne  S.  Davis,  Vocational  guidance  department,  city  schools, 
Chicago,  secretary. 

The  organization  of  this  association  was  completed  during  a  series 
or  meetings  held  at  (mind  Rapids,  Mich.,  October  21-24,  1  •'.)!.">. 
(Papers  presented  were  published  by  United  States  Bureau  of  Edu- 
cation as  Bulletin  1914,  No.  14.)  This  was  the  third  national  con- 
ference on  vocational  guidance,  previous  meetings  having  been  held  at 
Boston  in  1910  and  Xew  York  City  in  19  !± 

There  are  now  about  300  members  and  eight  branch  associations, 
viz: 


(Juidaiico  Association  of  New  York  City.  Mrs.  Mario  Hoi!,  112 
\Vcxt  Forty-sixth  Street,  secretary. 

Chirac  Vocational  (Uiidance  Association.  Mary  F.  Stono,  (507  Plymouth 
Court,  secretary. 

Vocational  (Guidance  Association  of  Minneapolis.  Hermiono  Dealey,  Depart- 
ment of  Educational  Psychology,  University  of  Minnesota,  se-  ir-iarv. 

Cincinnati  Vocational  <!uidan<-e  Association.  Mrs.  Helen  T.  Wooliey,  Vocation 
Bureau,  School  Department,  secretary. 

Vocational  (Guidance  Association  of  Philadelphia  and  Vicinity.  Klmira  A. 
I^odor,  Kensington  High  Scliool,  secretary. 

New  England  Vocational  Guidance  Association.  Lewis  A.  Maverick,  1  Law- 
rence Hall,  Kirklancl  Street,  Cambridge  38,  Mass. 

California  Vocational  Guidance  Association.  Charles  L.  Jacobs,  Scliool  of 
Education,  University  of  California,  Berkeley. 

Kansas  City,  Kansas,  Vocational  Guidance  Association.  C,  W.  Shelley,  2300 
North  Twelfth  Street,  secretary. 

It  is  planned  this  year  (1921)  to  have  each  branch  association  make 
a  study  of  some  phase  of  vocational  guidance. 

NATIONAL  WORKMEN'S  COMPENSATION  SERVICE  BUREAU. 

13  Park  Row,  New  York,  N.  Y.     Albert  W.  Whitney,  general 
manager. 

Established  in  December,  1910,  by  a  group  of  casualty  insurance 
companies  to  classify  compensation  and  liability  risks,  regulate  com- 
missions and  construct  a  standard  manual;  in  May,  1911,  the  Bureau 
of  Liability  Insurance  Statistics  (organized  1896)  was  merged  with 
it.  The  original  name  Workmen's  Compensation  Service  and  Infor- 
mation Bureau  was  changed  to  Workmen's  Compensation  Service 
Bureau  in  March,  1913,  and  the  present  style  was  adopted  in  June, 
1916.  Membership  is  open  to  companies  engaged  in  liability  or 
workmen's  compensation  insurance  which  are  duly  authorized  to 
transact  such  business  in  any  State  of  the  Union, 

In  addition  to  establishing  manual  or  basic  rates  for  particular 
classifications,  the  bureau  has  prepared,  tested,  and  published  plans 
of  (1)  "schedule  rating,"  for  modifying  the  manual  rates  by  giving 
credits  or  debits  for  good  or  bad  physical  conditions  (e.  g..  in  r-°\ 
to  use  and  efficiency  of  safety  appliances)  in  the  individual  ph:- 
revealed  by  inspection;  and  (2)  "experience  rating,"  for  a  further 
modification  based  on  the  actual  experience  of  the  plant  in  respect 
to  casualties,  etc.  Both  of  these  exert  an  important  influence  in  the 
direction  of  accident  prevention  because  they  offer  to  the  employer  a 
pecuniary  inducement  for  improving  his  risk  and  his  experience.  The 
bureau  is,  therefore,  interested  in  all  safety  standards,  primarily 
because  of  their  direct  bearing  on  rating,  an*d  has  compiled  the  fol- 
lowing handbooks: 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  139 

Universal    safety    standards:    -,\    tvfeiviK-e   book    of    rules,    drawings,    tables, 
formula,  data,  and  surest  ion.     By  Carl  M.  Haivsen,     2d  ed.     1914.     812  p. 
Safely  in  woodworking,     11)18. 

It  is  represented  on  the  executive  committee  of  the  American 
Engineering  Standards  Committee  (see  p.  7s£)  and  is  joint  sponsor 
for  three  of  the  safety  codes  in  process  of  development  under  its 
auspices  and  rules  of  procedure,  viz,  woodworking,  power  transmis- 
sion, and  machine  tools.  It  is  also  represented  on  the  sectional  com- 
mittees of  a  number  of  other  codes. 

The  library  of  the  bureau  has  issued  in  mimeographed  form  a 
number  of  reference  lists  on  special  subjects  in  the  field  of  indus- 
trial hygiene  and  safety,  e.  g.,  manufacture  of  munitions  and  ex- 
plosives from  the  standpoint  of  safety  and  health;  the  dust  hazard 
in  industry:  industrial  poisons;  safety  in  machine  shops  and  foun- 
dries: accident  prevention  in  building  construction  and  contract- 
ing; safety  in  conveying  and  hoisting;  safety  in  electrical  work; 
and  a  weekly  bulletin  of  references  arranged  under  subject  headings. 

KELA  RESEARCH  LABORATORY. 

National    Lamp    Works  of   General   Electric  Co.,   Nela   Park, 
Cleveland,  Ohio.    Edward  P.  Hyde,  director  of  research. 

Organized  in  the  autumn  of  1908  as  the  Physical  Laboratory  of 
the  National  Electric  Lamp  Association  for  the  development  of  those 
branches  of  science  with  which  the  art  of  lighting  is  closely  associ- 
ated (e.  g.  physics,  physiology,  and  psychology)  ;  present  name 
adopted  January,  1914-,*  in  consequence  of  a  business  reorganiza- 
tion which  did  not,  however,  affect  the  continuity  of  the  work  of  the 
laboratory. 

The  results  of  the  investigations  carried  out  in  this  laboratory 
have  been  presented  before  various  American  scientific  and  technical 
societies  and  have  been  published  in  their  proceedings  or  in  scientific 
and  technical  journals.  Abstracts  of  all  papers  up  to  January,  1916, 
have  also  been  published  in  the  Laboratory's  Abstract-Bulletin  (v.  1, 
Nos.  1,  2).  The  studies  of  physiological  and  psychological  aspects  of 
lighting  made  by  the  staff  include  the  following: 

3vos.  HeHuM-1  K  A  visual  acuity  test  object.  (Elec.  World,  v.  55,  1910,  p. 
939;  Abstract  No.  7.) 

<1ol>)>,  Percy  W.  The  influence  of  illumination  of  the  eye  on  visual  acuity. 
(Anier.  Jour.  Physio!.,  v.  29,  1911,  p.  76;  Abstract  No.  8.) 

Cobb,  Percy  W..  and  Geissler,  'L.  R.  The  effect  on  fovpsil  vision  of  bright 
bmmrtaitfings.  (Psychol.  Rev.,  v.  20,  1913,  p.  425-447.) 

Cobb,  Percy  W.  The  effect  on  foveal  vision  of  bright  surroundings  II,  III, 
IV  (  Psycho'l.  Rev.,  v.  21,  1914,  p.  23-32;  .Tour.  Exper.  Psychol.,  v.  1,  No.  5, 
Oct.,  1916,  p.  419-425;  v.  1,  No.  6,  Dec.,  1916,  p.  540-566.) 

The  infiiuMici'  of  pupillary  di:H>iett>r  on   visual  acuity.      (Amer.  Jour. 


Physiol.,  v.  36,  1915,  p.  335;  Abstract  No.  53.) 

—  -     Eye-function    and    light.      (Cleveland    Med.    Jour.,   v.    15,    Mar.,    1916, 

'Liiciiesh,  M.     Monochromatic  light  and  visual  acuity.     (Elec.  World,  v.  58, 
1911.  p.  450;  Abstract  No.  9.) 

The  dependence  <»!'  visual  acuity  on  the  wave-length  of  light.     (Elec. 
World,  v.  5S,  1911,  p.  1252:  Abstract  No.  10.) 

-  Visual  acuity  in  Vhite  light.     (Elec.  World,  v.  62,  1913,  p.  1  If  JO  ;  Ab- 

—  —    Radiant  energy  and  the  eye.     (Elec.  World,  v.  62,  191.3,  p.  844;  v.  66, 
1915,  p.  576;  Abstract  No.  60.) 

-  Glasses  for  protecting  the  eyes  in  industrial  processes.     (Trans.  Ilium. 
Eng.  Soc.,  v.  9,  1914,  p.  472  ;  Abstract  No.  62.) 


140  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

Burge,  W.  E.  The  injurious  effect  of  ultra -violet  radiation  on  living  tissue 
(Trans.  Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  v.  10,  1015,  p.  932;  Amer.  Jour.  1'hysiol.,  v.  30/1914,  p 
21;  v.  39,  1910,  p.  335;  Elec.  World,  v.  05,  1915,  p.  912;  Abstract  No.  61.) 

Johnson,  H.  M.  The  influence  of  the  distribution  of  brightness  over  the 
visual  field  on  the  time  required  for  discriminative  responses  to  visual  stimuli. 
(Psychobiology,  v.  1,  No.  0,  May,  1918,  p.  459-494.) 

The  dynamogeuic  influence  of  light  on  tactile  discrimination.  (Psycho- 
biology,  v.  2,  No.  4,  Aug.,  1920,  p.  351-374.) 

NEW  JERSEY  STATE  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE. 

Clinton  Building,  Newark,  N.  J. 

BUREAU  OF  STATE  RESEARCPI. — Paul  Studensky,  supervisor  of  staff. 
Established  in  1915  to  make  impartial  investigations  of  questions  of 
public  interest  on  which  the  State  chamber  desires  data  as  a  basis 
for  action.  Articles  and  brief  reports  by  its  staff  are  published  in 
New  Jersey,  issued  monthly  by  the  State  chamber,  or  is  the  weekly 
Legislative  Index,  issued  by  the  bureau  during  each  legislative  ses- 
sion; the  results  of  its  more  extensive  studies  appear  as  consecutive 
numbers  of  State  Research  (a  supplement  section  of  New  Jersey). 

Originally  its  research  activities  were  directed  to  governmental 
problems  in  the  State.  Among  its  published  reports  on  such  subjects 
is  a  series  in  the  field  of  personnel  administration  dealing  with  teach- 
ers', police,  firemen's,  and  other  local  employees'  pension  systems  pre- 
pared for  the  New  Jersey  Pension  and  Retirement  Fund  Commission 
in  the  work  of  reorganizing  the  State  and  municipal  funds  on  a 
sound  actuarial  basis  (published  1917-1919  as  State  Research,  Con- 
secutive Nos.  8-13, 16). 

The  experience  thus  gained  was  made  available  for  industrial 
concerns  by  the  establishment  of  a  special  Department  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Sound  Benefit  Funds  in  the  bureau  to  advise  employers 
and  employees  regarding  the  best  methods  to  be  followed  in  the  ad- 
justments of  benefits  and  contributions  and  to  perform  the  technical 
work  for  them.  A  report  entitled  "  Broadening  the  scope  of  pensions 
in  private  industry,"  by  Paul  Studensky,  was  published  as  New  Jer- 
sey, v.  6,  No.  8,  May,  1919. 

On  the  subject  of  housing,  a  report  entitled  "A  practical  build- 
ing program  to  meet  the  immediate  and  permanent  needs  of  New 
Jersey  industry,"  by  Lillian  Erskine,  was  issued  as  State  Research, 
Consecutive  No.  17,  June,  1919. 

In  December,  1918,  January  and  March,  1919,  the  State  chamber 
held  three  conferences  on  industrial  relations,  of  which  the  proceed- 
ings were  published  in  New  Jersey  (v.  6,  Nos.  4r-6).  As  a  result  of 
these  the  bureau  was  directed  to  collect  the  various  plans  and 
schemes  for  organizing  employee  representation  in  shop  manage- 
ment, analyze  these  systems  and  prepare  a  report  thereon,  which 
was  subsequently  published  under  the  title  "  Shop  committees  and 
industrial  councils,"  parts  1  and  2,  as  State  Research,  Consecutive 
No.  18,  July,  1919  (64  p.).  It  also  formulated  a  plan  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  Joint  Industrial  Council  for  New  Jersey  (in  New  Jer- 
sey, v.  6,  No.  10).  A  fourth  conference  on  industrial  relations  was 
held  in  September,  1919  (proceedings  in  New  Jersey,  v.  6,  No.  11), 
and  the  fifth  of  the  series  in  November,  1920. 

A  Committee  on  Industrial  Relations  was  appointed  in  December, 
1920,  to  continue  consideration  of  questions  in  this  field,  and  for  this 
committee  the  bureau  is  making  investigations  on  the  "  closed  shop  " 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  141 

and  "  open  shop."    An  introductory  report  on  "  Closed  shop  and 
open  shop  terminology  "  has  been  issued  as  New  Jersey,  v.  8,  No.  2. 

NEW  YORK  ASSOCIATION  FOR  IMPROVING  THE  CONDITION  OF 
THE  POOR. 

105  East  Twenty-second  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  SOCIAL  WELFARE.—  John  C.  Gebhart,  director. 
Established  in  April,  1913,  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Milbank  Anderson  to 
"  foster  preventive  and  constructive  social  measures  for  the  welfare 
of  the  poor  of  this  city,  as  distinguished  from  relief  measures  affect- 
ing particular  individuals  and  families."  Its  principal  work  at  the 
present  time  is  centered  in  the  Bureau  of  Welfare  of  School  Chil- 
dren. It  has  also  a  Nutrition  Bureau  (formerly  Bureau  of  Food 
Supplies)  which  carries  on  research  work  in  food  economics  and  has 
published  the  following  study  of  92  family  dietaries  (Publication 
No.  121  of  the  Association)  : 


Sherman,  H.  C.,  and  (TillKt.  L.  H.  The  adequacy  and  economy  of  some 
city  dietaries.  1917.  32  p. 

Attached  to  this  department  is  the  New  York  State  Commission 
on  Ventilation  (see  p.  54),  endowed  in  June,  1913,  with  a  special 
fund  of  $.">(  i,00()  by  Mrs.  Kli/abeth  Milbank  Anderson  to  enable  it 
to  carry  out  an  important  part  of  the  original  program  of  the  de- 
partment as  outlined  in  the  letter  of  gift,  i.  e.,  to  establish  by  research 
and  experimental  work  adequate  scientific  and  practical  standard 
methods  of  ventilation  for  home,  school,  and  workshop. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  FAMILY  WELFARE.  —  This  department  has  under 
its  direction  the  work  of  the  association  which  deals  more  particu- 
larly with  individual  families.  The  Bureau  of  Family  Rehabilita- 
tion and  Relief  has  accumulated  considerable  data  on  family  budgets 
through  the  requirement  that  such  a  record  shall  be  kept  by  prac- 
tically all  of  the  families  receiving  allowances  sufficient  for  their 
maintenance,  which  are  based  on  estimates  made  by  the  bureau's 
dietitians. 

NUTRITION  LABORATORY. 

Vila  Street,  Boston,  Mass.     Francis  G.  Benedict,  director. 

This  laboratory,  erected  1907-8,  is  one  of  the  research  depart- 
ments of  the  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington.  The  investiga- 
tions in  nutrition,  to  which  it  is  devoted,  originated  with  the  late 
Prof.  W.  O.  Atwater,  of  Wesleyan  University,  Middletown, 
Conn.,  and  during  the  years  1903  to  1907  grants  were  made  to  him 
and  to  the  present  director.  The  equipment  comprises  a  variety  of 
apparatus  for  observations  on  metabolism  and  for  related  investi- 
gations, including  respiration  calorimeters,  appartus  for  recording 
muscular  activity  and  other  physiological  phenomena,  bicycle  ergom- 
eters  and  treadmills  for  muscular  work,  etc.  A  psychological 
laboratory  provides  for  observations  on  physical  and  mental  effici- 
ency particularly  as  influenced  by  various  foods,  drugs,  and  fatigue. 

The  researches  undertaken,  which  are  of  interest  in  the  field  of 
industrial  physiology  and  psychology,  include  observations  on  the 
influence  of  various  factors  upon  metabolism,  as  the  ingestion  of 
foods,  breathing  of  oxygen-rich  atmospheres,  variations  in  tempera- 
ture environment,  muscular  activity;  observations  on  the  effect  of 
undernutrition  on  physical  and  mental  well-being;  the  ingestion  of 


142  HI.    N0NOFFIC1AL  AGENCIES. 

alcohol  as  influencing  psychological  processes  in  general  and  also 
skilled  muscular  performance;  (in  progress)  respiratory  exchange 
during  muscular  work  and  influence  of  alcohol  on  fatigue  and  re- 
cuperation. The  results  of  these  investigations  published  thu 
are  contained  in  the  following  Publications  of  the  Carnegie  Institu- 
tion of  Washington : 

No.  3 ST.  P.onodicl,  Franc-is  O.,  ami  Cathcart,  E.  P.     Muscular  work:  A  meta- 
bolic study   with   special    reference  to  the  efficiency   of  the   human   body 
iM.-jchiiie.     1913.     17«  p. 

No.    232.  Dodge-,    llnvinond,    and    Benedict,    F.    G.     Psychological    effects    of 
alcohol      AII   oxiKM-iniontal  investigation   of  the  effects  of  moderate 
ethyl   alcohol  on  a   related   group  of  iieuro-niuscular   oroccss-'s  in    num.     1915. 
L'SI    i,. 

No.  266.  Miles,  Walter  R.  Effect  of  alcohol  on  psycho-physioloKica!  func- 
tions. 1919.  144  p. 

No.  280.  Benedict,  Francis  G.,  and  others.  Human  vitality  and  efficiency 
under  prolonged  restricted  diet.  1919.  xi,  702  p. 

OHIO  COUNCIL  ON  WOMEN  AND  CHILDREN  IN  INDUSTRY. 

305  Bank  of  Commerce  Building,  Toledo.  Miss  Amy  (T.  Malier, 
chairman. 

This  council  was  formed  in  December,  1919,  and  consists  of  rep- 
resentatives of  25  organizations  concerned  with  industrial  problems, 
besides  a  number  of  interested  individuals.  Its  object  is  to  make 
unbiased  investigation  into,  conditions  calling  for  proposed  legis- 
lation, and  studies  of  its  results  in  places  where  it  is  already  in 
operation,  and  probable  effects,  if  passed,  on  various  industries  and 
localities  in  Ohio;  and  on  this  basis  to  develop  a  legislative  program 
in  the  interest  of  women  and  children  in  industry  which  can  be  sup- 
ported by  the  united  strength  of  its  constituent  organizations  and  a 
State- wide  public  opinion. 

It  has  recently  published  interim  reports  of  an  investigation  under- 
taken with  a  view  to  securing  data  bearing  on  a  minimum  wage  law 
for  the  State  of  Ohio.  The  second  section  is  devoted  to  a  study  of 
the  cost  of  living  in  the  case  of  women  in  various  occupations  all 
over  the  State.  A  summary  of  the  reports  is  given  in  Monthly 
Labor  Review,  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  February,  1921 
(p.  97-100). 

The  results  of  an  unemployment  survey  made  by  the  council  in 
1921  have  been  published  under  the  title  "  Ohio  and  unemployment 
in  1920-21"  (40  p.). 

PACIFIC  COAST  BUREAU  OF  EMPLOYMENT  RESEARCH. 

4r55  Flood  Building,  San  Francisco,  Calif.     Wilford  E.  Talbert, 

director. 

Organized  in  the  fall  of  1919  (1)  to  render  "community  service  " 
and  (2)  to  serve  individual  corporations  in  matters  affecting  the 
relations  between  employer  and  employee.  By  "  community  serv- 
ice "  was  meant  those  activities  which  would  make  for  better  indus- 
trial relations  in  the  community  as  a  whole.  In  June,  1920,  its  sub- 
scribers were  organized  to  form  the  Personnel  Club,  which  issued 
the  proceedings  of  monthly  meetings  in  its  official  organ,  Person- 
nel Club  Exchange  (mimeographed)  to  July,  1921.  This  publica- 
tion superseded  Employment  Problems  (v.  1,  No.  1,  Sept.,  1919), 
information  service  bulletins,  and  the  monthly  news  letters  pre- 
viously sent  to  subscribers.  In  July,  1921,  the  Personnel  Club 
merged  with  the  Industrial  Relations  Association  of  California. 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,   FOTJiNDATlONS,  ETC.  143   j 

The  bureau  has  made  a  study  for  one  of  the  street  'railways  to 
determine  whether  or  not  it  is  possible  to  select  in  advance  those  ^.^ 
motormen  who  wrill  be  least  liable  to  accidents.  It  is  also  making, 
at  the  request  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  a  preliminary  survey  of 
the  building  industry  in  'San  Francisco,  with  particular  reference  to 
the  elements  of  personnel  administration  which  are  involved.  Other 
research  work  done  by  the  bureau  applies  only  to  individual  corpora- 
tions and  the  results  have  been  considered  confidential. 

A  general  intelligence  test  for  business  institutions,  designed  by 
Arthur  S.  Otis,  of  its  staff,  has  recently  been  published  by  the 
World  Book  Co.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

PENNSYLVANIA  STATE  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE. 

Telegraph  Building,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

RESEARCH  BUREAI.— Leonard  P.  Fax,  director.  As  part  of  its 
health  insurance  investigation  in  1919  this  bureau  made  a  study  of 
sickness  absenteeism  in  Pennsylvania  from  reports  furnished  by  its 
members  with  regard  to  their  establishments.  The  results  are  pub- 
lished in  its  ''Special  report  on  health  insurance,"  1919  (p.  41-91). 

PERSONNEL  RESEARCH  FEDERATION. 

2!)  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.     Leonard  Outh- 

waite,  acting  director;  Alfred  1).  Flinn,  secretary. 
Organized  March  15,  1921,  at  a  conference  on  personnel  research 
held  under  the  auspices  of  the  National  Research  Council  and  Engi- 
neering Foundation,  following  a  preliminary  conference  held  No- 
vember VI,  11^0,  under  the  same  auspices  to  consider  the  practicability 
of  bringing  about  cooperation  amon^  the  many  bodies  conducting 
research  relating  to  men  and  women  in  industry  and  commerce,  from 
management  to  unskilled  labor. 

The  object  of  the  federation  is  defined  to  be  "the  correlation  of 

'•ch  activities   pertaining  to  personnel  in  industry,  commerce, 

education,  and  government,  wherever  such  researches  are  conducted 

in  the  spirit  and  with  the  methods  of  science."    To  this  end  the 

federation  will — 

(tn  (Yea  re  <i  ei«M.nng  house  for  information  'pertaining  to  research  agoncies 
in  the  field  oJ1  peixnmel,  the  scope  and  facilities  oi  sr.rh  agencies,  and  researches 
already  completed  or  in  progress. 

(b)  Study  whether  an<l  to  what  extent  research  effort  may  he  harmonized, 
duplication   minimized,   neglected   phases  of  the  problem   considered,    and   ad- 
vanced work  undertaken. 

(c)  Formulate  a  comprehensive  general  plan  through  which  research  aciivi- 
.ay  be  correlated  and  in  accordance  with  which  future  work  may  develop. 

The  charter  member  organizations  are  National  "Research  Council, 
Research  Information  Service  (see  p.  132)  ;  Engineering  Foundation 
(see  p.  102)  ;  American  Federation  of  Labor;  Bryn  Mawr  College, 
Carola  WoerishofFer  Department  of  Social  Economy  and  Social  Re- 
search (see  p.  166)  ;  Bureau  of  Industrial  Research  (see  p.  87)  ;  Car- 
negie Institute  of  Technology,  Bureau  of  Personnel  Research  (see 
p.  169)  •;  National  Committee  for  Mental  Hygiene  (see  p.  122)  ;  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  Department  of  Industrial  Research  (see 
p.  191). 

Provision  is  made  in  the  constitution  for  four  classes  of  members 
paying  annual  dues  as  follows: 


±4  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

(1)  Vbting  members  (scientific,  engineering,  labor,  management, 
employer,  educational,  and  other  organizations  engaged  in  personnel 
research),  $100. 

(2)  Cooperating   members    (individuals    and    organizations   con- 
tributing results  of  research  they  may  conduct)  —  (a)   Government 
agencies,  no  dues  for  those  agencies  prevented  by  legal  restrictions 
from  paying  such  dues,  others  $50;  (&)  educational  institutions,  $15; 
(c)   associations,  $50;  (d)   corporations,  $50 ;  (e)   individuals,  $5. 

(3)  Sustaining  members — (a)  individuals,  $100;  (b)  corporations, 
$250;  (c)  associations,  $250;  (d)  patrons  (individuals,  corporations, 
or  associations) ,  $500  or  more. 

The  first  general  meeting  is  to  be  held  November  21,  1021. 

PHILADELPHIA  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE. 

Widener  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS  COMMITTEE. — E.  T.  Trigg,  chairman.  In 
February,  1921,  this  committee  held  a  conference  at  Philadelphia  of 
representatives  of  the  various  interests  involved  in  the  construction 
industries.  Its  proceedings  and  those  of  a  national  conference  held 
in  Chicago,  March  2-3,  1921,  by  the  National  Federation  of  Con- 
struction Industries,  have  been  published  together  under  the  title: 

Proceedings  of  the  Philadelphia  and  National  Conference  on  the  Construction 
Industries.  Philadelphia.  1921.  254  p.,  charts.  4°. 

Chapter  6  (p.  66-82)  is  devoted  to  living  costs,  wages  and  hours  of 
labor;  chapter  8  (p.  129-158)  to  the  viewpoint  of  union  labor  on  in- 
dustrial conditions. 

PHIPPS  INSTITUTE. 

See  under  University  of  Pennsylvania  (p.  191). 

PORTLAND  CEMENT  ASSOCIATION. 

Ill  West  Washington  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

This  association  issues  a  bimonthly  Accident  Prevention  Bulletin, 
which  contains  papers  on  health  and  accident  hazards  of  the  cement 
industry.  It  has  prepared  annually  since  1913  a  "  Study  of  accidents  " 
occurring  in  the  plants  of  member  companies,  the  1920  report  being 
published  in  the  July- August,  1921,  number  of  the  Accident  Preven- 
tion Bulletin  (v.  7,  No.  4). 

PRUDENTIAL  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  AMERICA. 

Newark,  N.  J. 

STATISTICIAN'S  DEPARTMENT. — Frederick  L.  Hoffman,  third  vice 
president  and  statistician.  This  department  has  given  special  atten- 
tion to  industrial  mortality  and  in  the  course  of  the  last  25  years  has 
accumulated  a  large  collection  of  data  on  practically  every  occupa- 
tion or  industry  and  the  occupational  diseases  or  special  mortality 
problems  related  thereto,  including  material  obtained  through  its 
own  specialized  field  investigations.  Its  studies  in  this  field  are  made 
primarily  for  occupational  rating  purposes  but  many  of  the  results 
have  a  broader  scientific  value.  Some  of  this  material  has  been  made 
available  in  Bulletins  of  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Sta- 
tistics— No.  157,  Industrial  accident  statistics,  1915;  No.  231,  Mor- 
taility  from  respiratory  diseases  in  dusty  trades  (inorganic  dusts), 
1918 ;  No.  293,  The  problem  of  dust  phthisis  in  the  granite  stone  in- 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC,  145 

/ 

dustry,  1921  (in  press) — prepared  by  Dr.  Hoffman,  and  in  the  fol-       "/ 
lowing  publications  on  industrial  hygiene  issued  by  the  company : 

Industrial  accidents  and  trade  diseases  in  the  United  States.     1012.  3 

Industrial  accidents  in  the  United  States  and  their  relative  frequency  in  dif- 
ferent occupations.  1914.  28  p. 

The  mortality  from  diseases  of  the  lungs  in  American  industry,  by  F.  S. 
Cruni.  1916.  31  p. 

Menace  of  dust,  gases  and  fumes  in  modern  industry.    1918. 

Occupational  diseases  and  their  compensation,  with  special  reference  to 
anthrax  and  miners'  lung  diseases,  by  F.  L.  Hoffman.  1920.  45  p. 

The  mortality  from  respiratory  diseases  in  the  glass  industry.    1920. 

Investigations  have  also  been  made  in  connection  with  the  work  of 
the  Committee  on  Mortality  from  Tuberculosis  in  Dusty  Trades,  Na- 
tional Tuberculosis  Association  (see  p.  137),  of  which  Dr.  Hoffman 
was  formerly  chairman. 

RED  CROSS  INSTITUTE  FOR  CRIPPLED  AND  DISABLED  MEN. 

See  Institute  for  Crippled  and  Disabled  Men  (p.  108). 

RED  CROSS  INSTITUTE  FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Baltimore,  Md.    Charles  F.  F.  Campbell,  director. 

Established  in  1918  at  General  Hospital  No.  7,  Baltimore,  Md.,  for 
the  purpose  of  assisting  the  Medical  Department  of  the  Army  in  the 
reeducation  and  rehabilitation  of  the  blind  of  the  United  States  mili- 
tary forces. 

To  determine  the  best  method  of  doing  the  work,  experimental  in- 
vestigations were  made  along  various  lines  for  the  purpose  of  plan- 
ning courses  of  study  based  upon  the  findings.  A  program  of  in- 
dustrial surveys  was  worked  out  in  consultation  with  a  number  of 
prominent  engineers,  and  the  services  of  Mr.  A.  B.  Segur,  consulting 
industrial  engineer,  were  secured  to  carry  it  out.  The  basis  of  this 
work  consisted  of  a  careful  classification  of  the  industries  from  which 
typical  plants  could  be  chosen  for  survey,  and  a  standardized  ques- 
tionnaire outlined  and  sent  to  each  plant  which  would  serve  as  a  basis 
for  future  analysis  and  study. 

The  intention  when  these  surveys  were  started  was  to  make  a  gen- 
eral analysis  of  all  jobs  in  the  industries  of  this  country  that  could 
be  done  by  blind  persons  after  receiving  the  necessary  amount  of 
training,  away  from  the  job  and  on  the  job.  However,  as  the  work  of 
training  the  ex-service  men  continued,  those  undertaking  it  gradually 
learned  that  very  few  of  the  men  would  be  willing  to  accept  factory 
jobs  because  of  the  independence  gained  through  the  payment  of  in- 
surance and  compensation  made  by  the  Government.  It,  therefore, 
became  necessary  to  alter  the  policy  and  provide  vocational  training 
which  would  fit  the  men  for  the  operation  of  small  independent  busi- 
nesses. The  work  of  making  industrial  surveys  was  accordingly  dis- 
continued, as  it  did  not  meet  the  immediate  requirements.  An  ex- 
tensive report,  containing  much  detailed  technical  information  about 
the  industrial  plants  surveyed  before  the  work  was  abandoned,  is  on 
file  at  the  institute.  A  great  deal  of  the  information  obtained  is  held 
as  confidential.  An  article  describing  some  features  of  this  work, 
entitled  "Taking  the  guesswork  out  of  employment,  by  Alfred 
Fischer,  was  published  in  Factory  (v.  23,  No.  5,  Nov.,  1919,  p.  1057- 
1058). 

70723°— Bull.  299—21 10 


146  III.   NONOFFICIAL,  AtiENCii 

The  industrial  department  provides  instruction  in  automobile  re- 
pair, tire  vulcanizing,  and  cigar  making,  to  fit  the  men  to  work  in 
shops  as  employees,  and  management  courses  are  also  given  to  enable 
them  to  operate  unit  industries  in  these  lines. 

Current  information  about  the  work  of  the  institute  is  contained  in 
its  monthly  publication  Evergreen,  Review,  issued  since  January, 
1920. 

In  1918-19  translations  of  papers  on  the  rehabilitation  and  em- 
ployment of  war  blind  in  foreign  countries  were  printed  as  Publica- 
tions of  the  Red  Cross  Institute  for  the  Blind,  Nos.  1-4. 

RESEARCH  BUREAU  FOR  RETAIL  TRAINING. 

See  Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology  (p.  171). 

RETAIL  RESEARCH  ASSOCIATION. 

225  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

An  organization  of  large  retail  establishments  (18  firms  at  present, 
only  one  from  any  community),  for  cooperative  research  covering 
the  whole  range  of  department  store  functions.  Contributions  to 
meet  the  financial  requirements  of  its  budget  are  assessed  on  turn- 
over. 

PERSONNEL  AND  ORGANIZATION  DIVISION. — Philip  J.  Reilly,  In 
charge.  Organized  July,  1919,  this  division  has  made  a  personnel 
audit  of  each  member  store  and  recommended  to  the  proprietors 
personnel  administration  plans  based  thereon.  It  has  held  three 
semiannual  conferences  on  common  problems  as  follows :  First,  Oc- 
tober, 1919,  application  blanks,  service  records,  rating  scales,  leaving 
slips,  etc. ;  Second,  May,  1920,  systems  of  wage  payment  and  other 
financial  inducements;  Third,  October,  1920,  comparisons  of  methods 
of  training  departments.  The  next  (to  be  held  in  1921)  will  be 
devoted  to  shop  councils,  benefit  associations,  and  other  employee 
activities.  Prior  to  each  conference  comparative  data  on  the  subjects 
to  be  considered  are  collected  by  questionnaire  and  three  or  four 
months'  field  work  and  digested  in  convenient  form  as  a  basis  for 
the  discussions. 

A  short  training  course  for  buyers  of  the  member  stores  is  con- 
ducted at  the  association's  office  in  New  York. 

In  1920  the  chief  of  the  division  visited  London  and  prepared  a 
"Report  on  staff  administration  at  Harrods  (Ltd.),"  which  has  been 
printed  by  that  firm. 

The  following  are  being  prepared  in  cooperation  with  the  person- 
nel departments  of  the  member  stores:  (1)  A  standard  practice 
manual  on  merchandise  for  teaching  sales  people,  (2)  a  basis  for 
trade  tests,  and  (3)  a  loose-leaf  manual  of  personnel  information, 
giving  a  summary  of  experience  and  standard  practice. 

The  results  of  the  association's  researches  are  available  to  mem- 
bers only. 

ROCHESTER  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE. 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 

INDUSTRIAL  MANAGEMENT  COUNCIL. —  Eliott  Frost,  director. 
Formed  in  1916,  the  purpose  of  this  council  is  "  through  cooperation, 
investigations  by  paid  experts,  and  systematic  interchange  of  ideas 
and  information  to  secure  for  members  the  benefits  of  the  best,  most 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  147 

efficient,  and  most  economical  factory  methods  in  use."  It  comprises 
in  its  membership  41  of  the  largest  industrial  concerns  in  the  city  and 
its  work  is  supported  by  assessments  levied  on  the  firms  participating 
which  are  based  on  the  number  of  persons  they  employ.  It  is  organ- 
ized in  six  groups,  viz :  Managers,  Superintendents,  Employment  and 
service.  Production  methods,  Cost  accountants,  Tax. 

Among  the  reports  prepared  by  the  staff  at  the  request  of  members 
in  1920  was  one  on  bonus  systems  for  foremen  executives.  It  has  re- 
cently taken  over  the  work  of  preparing  local  cost  of  living  statistics 
every  month,  which  has  heretofore  been  carried  on  by  one  of  the 
industries  of  the  city  over  a  period  of  years.  One  of  the  groups  of 
the  council  is  at  the  present  time  at  work  upon  the  standardization 
of  a  table  for  accurately  figuring  turnover. 

COMMERCIAL  AND  INDUSTRIAL,  EDUCATION  COMMITTEE. — In  1915  this 
committee  published  a  report  of  its  "  Survey  of  needs  in  commercial 
education  "  (18  p.) .  There  was  also  made  a  survey  of  industrial  estab- 
lishments which  furnished  material  for  "  Vocations  for  Rochester 
boys  and  girls:  Bulletins  Nos.  1-4,"  by  R.  C.  Keople,  issued  by 
Rochester  (N.  Y.)  Department  of  Public  Instruction,  1915,  as 
follows : 

No.  1,  Macliiiif  industry.  0  ]>. :  No.  2,  Woodworking  industry,  4  p.;  No.  3, 
Clothing  industry  for  girls,  7  p. ;  No.  4,  Collar  factories,  4  p. 

RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION. 

Kast  Twenty-second  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y.  John  M. 
Glenn,  secretary  and  general  director. 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York  in  April, 
1907,  with  an  endowment  of  $10,000,000  given  in  memory  of  her  hus- 
band by  Mrs,  Russell  Sage,  to  which  she  added  $5,000,000  in  1918,  the 
purpose  of  the  foundation,  as  stated  in  its  charter,  is  "  the  improve- 
ment of  social  and  living  conditions  in  the  United  States  of  Amer- 
ica." Research  and  publication  are  the  means  to  this  end  which  have 
been  employed. 

Its  research  work  has  been  organized  under  the  following  depart- 
ments: Charity  organization,  Child  helping,  Education,  Industrial 
studies,  LiKi'uiy,  Recreation,  Remedial  loans,  Surveys  and  exhibits. 

The  publications  of  the  foundation  contain  the  results  of  original 
researches  carried  on  under  it  by  members  of  its  staff  or  by  experts 
commissioned  for  special  studies,  and  also  of  special  investigations 
such  as  the  Pittsburgh  Survey,23  which  the  foundation  financed  but 
did  not  direct,  and  the  Cleveland  Survey,21  directed  by  a  member  of 
its  staff  for  another  foundation.  A  printed  price-list  may  be  obtained 
from  the  Publication  Department. 

The  following  industrial  studies  in  the  list  deal  with  child  labor, 
cost  of  living,  fatigue  und  efficiency,  hours  of  work,  industrial  acci- 

23  This  was  planned  and  conducted  by  Paul  U.  Kellogg,  editor,  and  his  associates  in  the 
irioii  of  The  Survov. 

34  A  survey  of  the  public  schools  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  undertaken  by  the  Survey  Com- 
mittee of  the  Cleveland  Foundation  and  carried  out  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Ix»onard  P. 
AvreB  (then  director,  division  of  education,  ftusseU  Sage  Foundation),  who  edited  t»ie 
findings,  published  as  The  Cleveland  Survey  Monographs,  in  23  volumes.  Among  tbeac 
are  9  vocational  mttiographg,  descriptive  of  occupations  and  the  training  required  for 
them,  viz:  Boys  and  girls  in  commercial  work,  1>y  Bertha  M.  Stevens;  Department  store 
occupations,,  by  Iris  P.  O'Leary;  Dressmaking  and  millinery,  by  Edna  Bryner ;  Railroad 
and  street  transportation,  by  B.  D.  Fleming;  The  building  trades,  by  F.  L.  Shaw;  The 
garment  trades,  by  Edna  Bryner  ;  The  metal  trades,  by  U.  R.  Lute  ;  The  printing  trades, 
by  P.  L.  Shaw;  Wage  earning  and  education,  by  R.  R.  Lmtz, 


148  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

dents,  industrial  education,  seasonal  employment,  trade  unionism, 
unemployment,  wages,  or  women's  work: 

Anthony,  Katheriue  S.  Mothers  who  must  earn.  1914.  223  p.  (Issued  with 
Cartwright,  Otho  G.  The  middle  West  Side.  67  p.) 

Barnes,  Charles  B.    The  longshoremen.    1915.    287  p. 

Butler,  Elizabeth  B.    Saleswomen  in  mercantile  stores.    1912.    217  p. 

Goldmark,  Josephine.  Fatigue  and  efficiency :  a  study  in  industry.  1912. 
302  p. 

Hewes,  Amy,  and  Walter,  Henriette  R.  Munition  makers.  1917.  158  p.  (Part 
I  is  a  study  of  women  as  munition  makers  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.;  Part  II  is  a 
summary  of  British  reports.) 

Odencrantz,  Louise  C.  Italian  women  in  industry :  a  study  of  conditions  in 
New  York  City.  1919.  345  p. 

Van  Kleeck,  Mary.    Artificial-flower  makers.    1913.    261  p. 

—  A  seasonal  industry  :  a  study  of  the  milinery  trade  in  Now  York.     1917. 
276  p. 

Women  in  the  bookbinding  trade.    1913.    270  p. 

Working  girls  in  evening  schools:  a  statistical  study.    1914.    252  p. 

The  Pittsburgh  Survey  (findings  in  6  vols.  ed.  by  Paul  U.  Kellogg)  :  Women 

and  the  trades,  by  Elizabeth  B.  Butler,  1909,  440  p.;  Work  accidents  and  the 
law,  by  Crystal  Eastman,  1910,  335  p. ;  Homestead :  the  households  of  a  mill 
town,  by  Margaret  F.  Byington,  1910,  292  p.;  The  steel  workers,  by  John  A. 
Fitch,  1910,  380  p. ;  Wage-earning  Pittsburgh,  by  Paul  U.  Kellogg  and  others, 
1914,  582  p.;  The  Pittsburgh  district  civic  frontage  (by  various  investigators), 
1914,  554  p. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  INDUSTRIAL  STUDIES. — Mary  Van  Kleeck,  director. 
This  department  originated  as  the  Committee  on  Women's  Work, 
organized  in  1908  by  the  Alliance  Employment  Bureau  with  sup- 
port from  the  Foundation,  becoming  one  of  its  departments  in  the 
following  year.  In  1916  the  present  name  was  adopted  and  it  is  now 
engaged  in  the  study  of  industrial  conditions  affecting  both  men  and 
women. 

The  purpose  of  its  present  series  of  investigations  is  to  make  an 
accurate  and  impartial  record  of  typical  experiences  in  industry  in 
the  United  States  in  securing  for  the  workers  participation  in  deter- 
mining the  conditions  of  employment,  in  the  belief  that  an  analysis 
of  experience  will  afford  a  basis  for  constructive  action  by  employers 
and  workers  in  improving  industrial  relations.  Studies  of  the  indus- 
trial representation  plan  of  the  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  and  the 
contract  of  the  United  Mine  Workers,  the  works'  council  at  Rock 
Island  Arsenal,  and  the  partnership  plan  at  Dutchess  Bleachery, 
Wappinger's  Falls,  N.  Y.,  have  recently  been  completed  or  are  still 
in  progress. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  SURVEYS  AND  EXHIBITS. — Shelby  M.  Harrison, 
director.  Industrial  investigations  have  been  included  as  integral 
parts  of  the  city  surveys  made  and  directed  by  this  department  at 
Springfield,  111.,  Topeka,  Kans.,  and  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

In  1919  this  department  began  a  study  of  public  employment 
service — its  organization  and  administration,  the  technique  of  the 
local  service,  and  its  place  and  function  in  industrial  life.  The  field 
work  has  been  completed  and  a  report  of  progress  was  made  in  a 
paper  read  at  the  Ottawa  meeting  of  the  Internationl  Association  of 
JPublic  Employment  Services,  October,  1920.  The  complete  report  is 
to  be  sent  to  the  printer  about  October,  1921, 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  149 

SAFETY  INSTITUTE  OF  AMERICA. 

261  Madison  Avenue,  New  York,  X.  Y.  Eiley  M.  Little, 
director. 

Organized  in  1909  as  the  Museum  of  Safety  and  Sanitation;  in- 
corporated in  1911  by  special  charter  from  the  New  York  State 
Legislature  (Laws,  1911,  c.  152)  under  the  name,  American  Museum 
of  Safety ;  present  name  adopted  January  1, 1919.  The  objects  of  the 
institution  are  the  prevention  of  accidents,  the  elimination  or  lessen- 
ing of  occupational  diseases,  and  the  promotion  of  industrial  wel- 
fare through  health,  efficiency,  and  cooperation. 

There  are  three  classes  of  members — individual  (annual  dues,  $10), 
commercial  (annual  dues,  $25),  and  industrial  (annual  dues  $100). 
The  dues  for  commercial  members  include  the  special  report  service 
on  any  phase  of  accident  prevention  or  industrial  hygiene  upon 
which  the  member  desires  information;  and  in  addition  to  this,  in- 
dustrial members  are  entitled  to  an  illustrated  lecture  on  safety  and 
industrial  hygiene  and  the  free  inspection  service. 

The  institute  has  entered  into  an  agreement  with  the  National 
Safety  Council  (see  p.  133)  to  unify  the  work  of  the  two  organiza- 
tions in  the  Metropolitan  District  in  order  to  prevent  duplication. 
All  industrial  plants  in  this  district  which  are  members  of  either, 
become  entitled  to  the  joint  service  of  both.  The  two  bodies  have 
organized  the  Metropolitan  Safety  Council  for  carrying  on  an  active 
safety  campaign. 

The  institute  maintains  at  its  headquarters  a  permanent  exhibit 
of  approved  safety  and  sanitary  appliances  and  a  special  free  refer- 
ence library. 

Its  research  work  is  represented  by  the  consultation  service  re- 
ports, prepared  in  response  to  inquiries  from  members,  which  are 
filed  and  indexed  in  the  library,  and  by  articles  prepared  by  its  staff 
for  publication  in  its  bulletin  Safety,  published  monthly,  December, 
1913,  to  December,  1920  (now  temporarily  suspended).  The  results 
of  an  investigation  made  by  the  institute  jointly  with  the  New  York 
State  Commission  on  Ventilation  (see  p.  54)  on  "  Determination  of 
standards  for  the  atmospheric  dust  content  in  factories  and  work- 
shops," by  H.  C.  Ward,  were  published  in  Safety  (v.  4,  No.  7,  July- 
Aug..  1916.  p.  166-171).  In  1917  in  connection  with  the  Framing- 
ham  Community  Health  and  Tuberculosis  Demonstration  under- 
taken by  the  National  Tuberculosis  Association  (see  p.  136)  a  survey 
of  the  various  industrial  establishments  was  conducted  by  Mr.  A.  S. 
Kegula  of  the  technical  staff  of  the  institute,  with  a  view  to  indicat- 
ing the  most  important  features  of  the  problem  of  safeguards  for 
mechanical  equipment  and  developing  monthly  foremen's  meetings 
to  educate  them  in  the  elementary  essentials  of  safety  devices  and 
safety  practices. 

A  volume  of  lectures  given  by  the  institute  on  alternate  Saturday 
mornings,  February  to  June,  1919,  for  the  benefit  of  factory  in- 
spectors employed  by  the  city  of  New  York,  the  States  of  New  York 
and  New  Jersey,  and  insurance  companies  was  published  in  1920 
under  the  title  "  Safety  fundamentals  "  (228  p.). 

The  institute  awards  two  gold  medals  for  the  encouragement  of 
research  and  invention  in  its  special  field,  viz : 


150  III.    NONOFFICIAL.  AGENCIES. 

The  Scientific  American  gold  medal,  for  the  most  efficient  s»" 
device  invented  within  a  .certain  number  of  years  and  exhibit*1 
the  museum. 

The    Louis   ^Livingston    Seaman    gold   medal,    for   j->  and 

achievement  in  the  promotion  of  hygiene  and  the  mitigu; 
pational  disease. 

SCOTT  CO.  LABORATORY. 

Drexel  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa.    L.  B.  Hopkins  in  cha> 

Established  in  1919  by  the  Scott  Co.  for  the  purpose  of  carrying 
on  both  specific  and  general  research  in  the  field  of  industrial 
sonnel.  The  Scott  Co.  is  an  outgrowth  of  the  Committee  on  Classifi- 
cation of  Personnel  in  the  Army,  in  the  work  of  which  its  nine  active 
members  were  associated  during  the  war.  In  June,  1919,  they  or- 
ganized this  firm  of  consultants  and  engineers  in  industrial  per- 
sonnel, which  was  incorporated  as  a,  personal  service  corporation 
under  the  laws  of  Pennsylvania  (Walter  Dill  Scott,  president; 
Beardsley  Ruml,  secretary).  As  consultants,  its  service  is  available 
at  a  consultant's  fee,  including  a  .specific  research  of  long  duration 
in  a  particular  plant  or  company.  Out  of  its  earnings  the  genera,! 
research  work  of  the  laboratory  is  supported  and  the  results  are 
made  available  for  the  advancement  of  scientific  knowledge  in  the 
field  of  industrial  personnel,  in  the  form,  of  mimeographed  bulletins, 
as  follows : 

Apprentice  Manual, 

A  Plan  of  Apprentice  Training. 

Departmental  Interview  Bulletins,  Nos.  1,  2;  D.   T.  1,  Pepnrfnieir 
views;  D.  I.  2,  Measuring  the  importance  of  merchandise  knowledge  :«• 
retail  sales  people. 

Labor  Turnover  Bulletins,  Nos.  1-5:  L.  1.  The  labor  turnover  daybook ;  L.  2, 
Turnover  and  mental  alertness  test  scores;  L.  3,  General  intelligen' 
stability;  L.  4,  Relation  between  age  and  length  of  service  in  common  labor; 
L.  5,  Labor  turnover  in  relation  to  length  of  service. 

Mental  Alertness  Bulletins,  Nos.  1-11:  M.  A.  1,  Description  of  the  Scot' 
mental  alertness  tests  (series  I)  ;  M.  A.  2,  Mental  alertness  I 
of  the  general  value  of  office  employees;  M.  A.  3,  Comparison  of  meailni  aJfrt- 
ness  scores  of  men  and  women  office  employees ;  M.  A.  4,  Differences  in  laentat 
alertness  scores  in  different  office  departments ;  M.  A.  5,  Mentnl  alertness  stand- 
ards for  various  occupation  groups;  M.  A.  6,  Mental  jr 

for  classification  in  factory  schools:  M.  A.  7,  Significance  of  relation  of  mental 
alertness  scores  of  applicants  to  mental  alertness  scores  of  tvuvloyeex;  M.  A.  8, 
Significance  of  the  mental  alertness  scores  of  the  women 
four  companies;  M.  A.  9,  Differences  between  men  and  worn-Mi  of!i-»p  e 
M.  A.  10,  Mental  •!  of  messenger  and  office  hoys;  M.  A.  11, 

training  and  mental  alertness. 

Qualification  Card  Bulletins,  Nos.  1,  2 :  Q.  C.  1,  The  employee's  qunlili-- 
card ;  Q.  C.  2,  Construction  of  qualification  cards. 

Hating  Scale  Guide. 

Rating  Scale  Bulletins,  Nos.  1-3:   U.  S.  1,  The  graphic  riding  or, 
R.  S.  2,  A  method  of  efficiency  rating  for  foremen;  K.  S.  3,  Th<-  eaqneriw 
development  of  the  graphic  rating  method. 

Service  Bulletin  No.  1  :  S.  1,  The  development  of  a  factory  library. 

Trade  Test  Guide,  Army  type. 

Trade  Test  Bulletins,  Nos.  1-4:  T.  T.  1,  What  is  a  Irjule  test?  T.  T.  2,  Th«» 
making  of  the  Army  type  of  trade  test;  T.  T.  3,  File  clerk  tost  sbmrtjirds; 
T.  T.  4,  The  file  clerk's  test. 

Wage  Bulletins,  Nos.  1,  2:  W.  1,  A  procedure  in  wage  adjustment;  W.  2, 
Ratings  and  wage  adjustments. 

Single  copies  of  the  above  are  available  to  anyone  whose  standing 
is  a  guarantee  that  these  instruments  for  research  will  not  be  mis- 


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used.  Tests,  rating  scales,  and  various  forms  for  recording  and  ac- 
cumulating information  about  personnel  have  been  devised  and  are 
sold  in  quantities  at  cost  under  the  same  conditions. 

The  following  contributions  b}^  members  of  the  staff  have  ap- 
peared in  psychological  journals: 

Ituml.  B.  The  need  for  an  examination  of  certain  hypotheses  in  mental 
tests.  (Jour.  Philos.  Psycliol.  &  Sci.  Methods,  v.  17,  No.  3,  Jan.  29,  1920,  p. 
57-61.) 

Kornhauser,  A.,  and  Ruml,  B.  Recent  developments  in  trade  test  theory. 
(Psychol.  Bull.,  v.  17,  No.  2,  Feb.,  1920,  p.  79-80.) 

Pntersoii,  D.  G.,  and  Rninl,  B.  The  extension  of  rating  scale  theory  ami 
technique.  (Psychol.  Bull.,  v.  17,  No.  2,  Feb.,  1920,  p.  80-81.) 

Hayes*  Mary  H.  S.,  and  Paterson,  D.  G.  Experimental  development  of  the 
graphic  rating  method.  (Psycho!.  Bull.,  v.  18,  No.  2,  Feb.,  1921,  p.  98-99.) 

Tables  to  facilitate  the  computation  of  coefficients  of  correlation  by  the  rank 
difference  method.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  r.  4,  Nos.  2-3,  June-Sept.,  1920,  p. 
115-12.");  also  issued  as  a  reprint  by  the  Journal.) 

SCOVILL  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

Waterbury,  Conn. 

DEPAKTMKXT  OF  INDUSTRIAL  HYGIENE. — A.  H,  Ryan,  M.  D.,  direc- 
tor. Established  in  November,  1919,  to  conduct  research  and  to 
npply  present  knowledge  to  the  improvement  of  working  conditions 
and  the  increase  of  human  efficiency  in  industry;  in  the  performance 
of  these  functions  the  initiative  regarding  the  particular  problems 
to  be  undertaken  may  come  from  the  department  itself  or  the  man- 
ageroprtt.  The  company  agreed  to  allow  academic  freedom  in  the 
,  ivh  undcHni-on  and  the  use  of  the  results.  The  departmental 
staff  consists  of  the  director,  two  full-time  research  assistants  and 
secretary;  and  the  director  is  one  of  the  advisory  staff  of  the  general 
superintendent.  The  equipment  of  the  department  includes  physio- 
logical, psychological,  and  chemical  laboratories,  an  experimental 
shop  room  in  which  operations  are  brought  near  to  the  laboratories 
for  the  purpose  of  closer  study,  and  a  research  library.  The  services 
and  equipment  of  other  departments,  including  tool  and  machine  and 
photographic  departments,  chemical  and  electrical  research  labora- 
tories, hospital,  etc.,  may  be  obtained  when  required. 

Among  the  problems  upon  which  the  advice  of  the  department 
has  been  sought  are  the  following:  Sanitation  and  ventilation  of  tho 
it  and  buildings;  standards  for  selection  of  workers  for  opera- 
tions, and  methods  of  application;  physical  standards  for  occupa- 
tions: fatigue  in  connection  with  the  planning  of  operations  and 
piece-rate  setting;  accident  and  illness  in  relation  to  occupations — 
their  determination,  causation,  and  prevention;  occupational  place- 
ment of  handicapped;  functional  specialization  in  group  work; 
methods  of  increasing  efficiency  in  the  employment  of  the  special 
senses;  occupational  classification;  personnel  statistics;  absenteeism 
and  turnover  with  reference  to  occupation ;  first-aid  methods  and  in- 
struction. 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  cooperation  of  the  worker  is  required  in 
achieving  improvement  through  hygienic  measures,  a  regular  course 
in  industrial  hygiene  is  given  by  the  department  to  the  apprentices. 
During  the  past  year  a  similar  course  was  also  given  to  foremen. 

A  paper  entitled  "  Discussion  of  Public  Health  Bulletin  No.  106, 
Comparison  of  an  eight-hour  plant  and  a  ten-hour  plant,"  by  A.  H. 
Ryan,  was  published  in  Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene  (v.  2,  p.  466- 


152  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

478),  April,  1921.  An  investigation  of  "Spoiled  work  in  relation 
to  hours  of  labor  and  other  industrial  conditions,"  made  by  A.  H. 
Ryan  and  P.  S.  Florence,  in  conjunction  with  the  United  States 
Public  Health  Service,  is  in  press. 

Researches  on  the  following  subjects  are  in  progress  (September, 
1921)  :  Physiological  analysis  of  occupation  and  its  practical  appli- 
cations ;  the  respiratory  exchange  in  fatigue  and  work ;  eyestrain ; 
fatigue;  the  absorption  and  elimination  of  zinc,  cadmium,  lead,  and 
copper  in  brass  foundry  workers ;  the  effect  of  long  exposure  to  small 
quantities  of  carbon  monoxide. 

Graduate  research  is  provided  for  in  the  plan  as  formulated,  in 
order  to  develop  properly  trained  research  workers  in  industrial 
physiology,  psychology,  medicine,  etc.;  to  stimulate  interest  in  the 
industrial  aspects  of  the  biological  sciences  and  to  encourage  re- 
search in  these  lines  in  the  universities ;  and  to  keep  the  department 
staff  in  touch  with  the  scientific  spirit  and  viewpoint  of  the  uni- 
versity laboratories.  According  to  the  plan  contemplated,  a  gradu- 
ate student  in  physiology,  or  psychology,  for  example,  could  spend 
one  year  in  the  factory  in  research  upon  his  thesis,  for  which  the 
university  would  give  him  credit.  The  factory  would  provide  a  fel- 
lowship stipend  for  such  a  student.  The  plan  has  been  made  effective 
at  Yale  University  by  the  appointment  of  the  director  of  this  depart- 
ment as  lecturer  in  industrial  physiology;  and  at  Tufts  College, 
where  the  director  of  this  department  is  head  of  the  department  of 
physiology  in  the  medical  school,  through  the  establishment  by  the 
trustees  or  a  research  fellowship  of  $600  for  this  purpose. 

WILLIAM  H.  SINGER  MEMORIAL  RESEARCH  LABORATORY. 

Sandusky  and  Parkway,  N.  S.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  Samuel  R.  Hay- 
thorn,  M.  D.,  director. 

Founded  by  Mrs.  William  H.  Singer  and  construction  of  the  build- 
ing commenced  April,  1915.  On  completion  the  entire  property  was 
turned  over  to  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Allegheny  General  Hos- 
pital to  be  used  both  as  a  research  laboratory  for  the  study  of  gen- 
eral medical  and  surgical  problems  and  as  a  means  of  furnishing  the 
hospital  with  a  high  grade  of  routine  laboratory  work. 

The  following  studies  by  the  director  having  a  bearing  on  indus- 
trial hygiene  have  been  published  from  this  laboratory :  "  The  preven- 
tion or  epidemic  influenza,  with  special  reference  to  vaccine  prophy- 
laxis" (containing  an  analysis  of  the  results  on  about  50,000  steel 
workers  and  railroad  employees),  which  is  included  in  the  studies  on 
epidemic  influenza,  published  by  the  University  of  Pittsburgh  School 
of  Medicine  in  1919 ;  "  Unresolved  pneumonia  associated  with  severe 
anthracosis  "  (in  International  Association  of  Medical  Museums  Bul- 
letin No.  7,  May,  1918)  ;  "The  pathology  of  trinitrotoluene  poison- 
ing" (ibid.) ;  "Experimental  trinitrotoluene  poisoning"  (Journal  of 
Industrial  Hygiene,  December,  1920,  v.  2,  No.  8,  p.  298-318). 

A  description  of  the  equipment  of  the  laboratory  is  available  in 
pamphlet  form. 

SOCIETY  FOR  THE  PROMOTION  OF  ENGINEERING  EDUCATION. 

Dean  F.  L.  Bishop,  University  of  Pittsburgh,  secretary. 
Organized  at  the  close  of  the  engineering  congress  held  at  Chicago 
in  1893,  as  an  outgrowth  of  section  E   (engineering  education)   of 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  153 

that  congress.    There  are  now  over  1,500  members  (annual  dues,  $4).' 
Annual  meetings  are  held  in  the  last  week  of  June  at  a  center  of  engi- 
neering education  and  at  the  invitation  of  a  college  or  university. 
Three  local  sections  have  been  organized  since  their  authorization  in 
1919,  viz:  Pittsburgh,  Georgia-Tech.,  Kansas-Nebraska.  t 

The  society  publishes  a  bulletin,  Etigineering  Education,  monthly 
September  to  June,  and  tiie  Proceedings  of  the  annual  meeting  (v. 
1-28,  1893-1920). 

In  1907  the  society  formed  with  the  American  Society  of  Civil 
Engineers,  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  the 
American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers,  and  the  American 
Chemical  Society,  a  "  Joint  Committee  on  Engineering  Education  " 
which  cooperated  in  a  comprehensive  investigation  of  the  subject 
undertaken  by  the  Carnegie  Foundation  for  the  Advancement  of 
Teaching  at  its  request.  (See  p.  93.) 

A  large  part  of  the  work  of  the  society  is  conducted  by  24  com- 
mittees, half  of  this  number  being  devoted  to  the  separate  subjects 
in  the  engineering  curriculum.  Their  reports  are  presented  at  the 
annual  meetings  and  printed  in  the  proceedings. 

COMMITTEE  Xo.  22  ON  INTELLIGENCE  TESTS. — L.  L.  Thurstone, 
Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology,  chairman.  Appointed  June,  1919, 
to  determine  the  possible  usefulness  of  intelligence  tests  and  other 
objective  tests  for  engineering  students,  as  the  result  of  papers  and 
discussion  on  the  subject  at  the  Baltimore  meeting  in  that  year  (Pro- 
ceedings, v.  27,  p.  113-158).  The  investigation  is  being  carried  on 
with  the  cooperation  of  47  colleges,  at  which  10,000  freshmen  were 
given  six  tests  in  1920.  The  first  report  was  published  in  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  1920  (v.  28,  p.  349-361)  and  the  committee  has  been  con- 
tinued so  that  the  results  of  sophomore,  junior,  and  senior  scholar- 
ships may  be  used  as  criteria  for  determining  the  predictive  value  of 
the  tests. 

SOCIETY  OF  INDUSTRIAL  ENGINEERS. 

327  South  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111.     George  C.  Dent,  busi- 
ness manager. 

Organized  May,  1917,  in  Chicago  at  a  conference  of  executives  and 
engineers  called  by  the  Western  Efficiency  Society  to  discuss  "the 
human  factor  in  industrial  preparedness."  The  activities  of  the 
society  include  stimulating  original  research,  both  in  industrial 
plants  and  at  universities;  exchanging  and  coordinating  knowledge 
of  scientific  methods  of  management.  It  has  345  members  consisting 
of :  Class  2,  professional  industrial  engineers,  whether  consultants  or 
executives ;  class  3,  technical  engineers  and  accountants,  retained  or 
resident;  class  4,  managing  executives  of  commercial  and  industrial 
activities;  class  5,  investigators,  teachers,  writers  and  lecturers  in 
engineering,  economics,  psychology  and  other  subjects  associated  with 
management ;  class  6,  juniors  and  students.  Conventions  are  held 
semiannually,  in  the  spring  and  fall  at  various  places.  Sectional 
meetings  of  industrial  relations,  educational,  finance  and  accounting, 

Eroduction,  and  sales  groups  have  been  held  at  recent  conventions, 
ocal  chapters  in  New  York,  Cleveland,  Detroit,  Chicago,  Milwaukee, 
and  in  Texas  hold  monthly  meetings. 


154  jn.l^ONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 


Complete  reports  of  the  proceedings  of  conventions  have  been  pub- 
lished as  follows  : 

1918  (Chicago)  :  Labor  problems  under  war  conditions.     (Jointly  with  Went- 
erii  Efficiency  Society.)     222  p. 
1919,  spring  (New  York)  :  Industrial  reconstruction  problems.    200  p. 

1919,  fall  (Cleveland)  :  American  and  international  labor  conditions.     160  p. 

1920,  spring  (Philadelphia)  :  The  practical  applications  of  the  principles  of 
industrial  engineering.    300  p. 

1920,  fall  (Pittsburgh)  :  Industrial  education.  245  p.  (Includes  education 
of  tho  professional  industrial  engineer,  training  the  working  force,  education 
of  tl»^  ••Hi/on  in  industry.) 

1021,  spring   (Milwaukee)  :  Industrial  leadership.     1921.     875  p. 

The  main  subject  of  the  fall  convention,  October,  1921,  at  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  was  Industrial  stability. 

The  series  of  Publications  includes  also  addresses  at  local  chapters, 
yearbooks  and  "A  list  of  bibliographies  of  industrial  engineering  and 
management,"  prepared  by  the  Committee  on  Research.  The  busi- 
ness manager's  office  issues  a  monthly  bulletin,  mainly  chapter  news. 

RESEARCH  COMMITTEE.  —  Edward  J.  Kunze,  Pennsylvania  State 
College,  vice  president  in  charge  of  research.  Among  the  projects  of 
this  committee  (organized  1919)  is  the  promotion  of  original  re- 
search, both  in  the  industrial  plant  and  in  the  university,  to  establish 
elemental  standards  of  basic  industrial  exertion,  such  as  shoveling, 
mixing,  grinding,  sawing,  etc.,  and  arrive  if  possible  at  a  closer 
determination  of  what  is  a  "  fair  day's  work,"  and  to  make,  arrange, 
and  collect  elemental  time  studies. 

EDUCATIONAL  COMMITTEE.  —  D  wight  T.  Farnham,  St.  Louis,  Mo,, 
vice  president  in  charge  of  education.  This  committee  was  organized 
in  March,  1920,  and  has  been  working  on  a  standard  course  in  indus- 
trial engineering  and  management  for  colleges, 

COMMITTEE  FOR  THE  ELIMINATION  OF  UNNECESSARY  FATIGUE.-  — 
Frank  B.  Gilbreth,  Montclair,  N.  J..  chairman.  The  organization 
of  this  committee  by  the  vice  president  in  charge  of  research  was 
authorized  at  the  fall  meeting,  1919.  There  are-  now  about  85  mem- 
bers not  restricted  to  the  society.  It  has  prepared  exhibitions  of 
devices  and  equipment  designed  to  eliminate  fatigue,  and  held 
sions  at  the  spring  and  fall  conventions  of  1921  on  "  Practical 
methods  of  fatigue  elimination  "  and  "  White  paint  as  a  reducer  of 
unnecessary  fatigue,"  respectively. 

SOUTHERN  PINE  ASSOCIATION. 

New  Orleans,  La. 

SAFETY  DEPARTMENT.  —  W.  Graham  Cole,  director  of  safety.  This 
department  was  organized  March  15,  1919,  to  assist  the  members  of 
the  association  in  the  reduction  of  accidents  among  their  employees 
and  to  collect  and  distribute  information  of  value  in  this  work.  It 
has  prepared  and  published  a  series  of  safety  bulletins  designed  for 
posting  and  a  booklet  entitled,  "  Safety  in  the  mill  and  woods  "  for 
distribution  among  workmen;  also  two  safeguarding  bulletins,  safety 
suggestions  on  cards,  and  the  annual  report  of  its  activities  entitled, 
"  Safeguarding  the  workman  "  have  been  published  for  the  use  of 
superintendents  and  foremen.  The  last  named  contains  statistical 
charts  of  accidents  in  the  Southern  lumber  industry. 

The  association  is  represented  on  the  cooperating  committee  or- 
ganized by  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Standards  in  formulating 
a  National  Safety  Code  for  Logging  and  Sawmilling  Operations. 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC. 

SPRAGUE  MEMORIAL  INSTITUTE. 

Vr  ITniversity  of  Chicago  (p.  173). 

STATE  CHARITIES  AID  ASSOCIATION  OF  NEW  YORK. 

105  East  Twenty-second  Street,  New  York,  If.  Y. 
COMMITTEE  ON  MENTAL  HYGIENE. — Mrs.  Margaret  J.  Powers,  social 
service  director.    Organized  in  1910  for  the  twofold  purpose  of  con- 
serving mental  health  and  of  securing  high  standards  of  care  .»  i-l 
treatment   for  those  sunVHi;a   from  mental   disorders  and   del 
this  committee  furnishes  the  ps-.  ie  social  service  for  the  De- 

partment of  Psychiatry,  of  Cornell  Clinic,  dealing  with  about  500 
mental  cases  a  year.     A  large  number  of  these  are  referred  to  the 

.d   Service  Department   for   adjustment  in  all  of  their  social 
relationships,  and  it  is  found  that,  witli  many  of  them  employment  is 
for  in  their  difficulty.    The  case  records  which  have  ac- 
cumulated contain  valuable  data  for  research  on  difficulties  in  voca- 
tional   adjustment.     Illustrative  material  is  given  in   a  paper  on 
"  The  industrial  cost  of  the  psycopathic  employee,"  foy  Mrs.  Powers, 
the  Mental  Hygiene  Division  of  the  National  Confer- 
ence of  Social  Work,  April,  ii^O,  and  published  in  Mental  Hygiene 
(v.  4,  No.  4,  October,  1920,  p.  932-339). 

STRUCTURAL  SERVICE  BUREAU. 

Estey  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

This  bureau  lias  worked  out  the  average  number  of  days'  employ- 
ment which  the  Philadelphia  bricklayer  could  normally  expect  iu  a 
year,  and  the  number  of  days  he  would  probably  lose  through  unem- 
ployment, illness,  and  other  causes  beyond  his  control.    The  results 
published  in  the  Monthly  Labor  Keview  of  the  U.  8.  Bureau  of 

>r  Statistics,  v.  12,  No.  5,'May,  1921,  p.  107-110.  Similar  figures* 
which  it  has  worked  out  for  all  tlio  building  trades  in  Philadelphia 
are  given  in  the  October,  1921,  issue  of  the"  Monthly  Labor  Review 
(p.  98-100). 

TANNERS*  COUNCIL  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 

41  Park  Row,  New  York,  N.  Y.    Edward  A.  Brand,  secretary. 

INDUSTRIAL  BUREAU. — This  bureau  was  maintained  by  the  coun- 
cil until  the  early  part  of  1921  when  it  was  discontinued  (Roy  S. 
Bonsib,  director).  During  1919-20  it  prepared  and  issued  the  fol- 
lowing: 

What  tanners  should  know  about  anthrax;  a  compilation  of  general  in- 
formation on  anthrax,  its  treatment,  prevention,  and  elimination.  By  R.  S. 

-ih.     1020.    24  p. 
'Jis'iilthgrams,  Nos.  1-4,  July-Nov.,  1020  (a  series  of  circulars  upon  tlte  iin- 

•ment  of  the  health  of  tannery  worker>). 

Safetygram?,  Nos.  1-?>G,  Aug.,  1919-Nov.,  1920  {a  series  of  circulars  on  the 
prevention  of  accidents  in  tanneries). 

A  labor  survey  of  the  tanning  industry,  covering  TO  plants,  was 
b  by  the  Bureau  of  Industrial  Research  (see  p.  88)  for  the  Tan- 
ners' Council,  but  the  report  has  not  been  published. 

TAYLOR  SOCIETY. 

29  West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York,  N.  I7.     H.  S.  Person, 

managing  director. 

Organized  in  1911  as  the  Society  to  Promote  the  Science  of  Man- 
agement ;  name  changed  in  1916  to  honor  the  memory  of  Frederick  W, 


156  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

Taylor,  pioneer  in  the  development  of  science  in  management,  who 
had  died  in  1915.  The  activities  of  the  society  were  suspended  dur- 
ing the  war;  it  was  reorganized  in  1919,  when  permanent  head- 
quarters were  established  in  New  York  and  a  managing  director 
elected. 

The  object  of  the  society  is  to  promote  the  science  and  the  art  of 
administration  and  of  management,  for  the  mutual  benefit  of  the 
community,  labor,  the  manager,  and  the  employer,  and,  among  other 
things,  to  secure  the  gradual  elimination  of  unnecessary  effort  and  of 
unduly  burdensome  toil  in  the  accomplishment  of  the  work  of  the 
world. 

There  are  now  about  450  members,  mainly  management  engineers 
and  industrial  executives,  classified  in  five  grades:  Honorary,  senior 
(initiation  fee  $15,  annual  dues  $15) ;  associate  (initiation  fee  $15, 
annual  dues  $15)  ;  junior,  21  to  30  years  of  age  (initiation  fee  $5, 
annual  dues  $5);  sustaining  (annual  dues  $100  to  $500).  A  Sales 
Executives'  Section  was  established  in  1920.  Not  less  than  two 
regular  meetings  are  held  each  year,  the  annual  meeting  in  November 
or  December.  The  New  York  Section,  organized  in  1920,  meets 
monthly  on  the  third  or  fourth  Thursday. 

Papers  and  discussions  at  the  meetings  of  the  society  and  other 
contributions  are  published  in  the  society's  Bulletin,  as  follows: 

Cost  of  living  in  relation  to  wage  adjustments,  a  research  made  at  the  Holt 
Manufacturing  Co.,  Peoria,  111.  (in  v.  4,  No.  5,  p.  29-46). 

Industrial  relations  symposium,  Cambridge  meeting  October  4,  1919  (in  v. 
i,  No.  6,  p.  12-48). 

Proceedings  of  the  New  York  meeting,  December  5,  6,  1919,  on  managerial 
problems  (in  v.  5,  Nos.  1,  2),  viz — "  Standards,"  by  W.  K.  Hathaway  (p.  12-42)  ; 
"The  foreman,"  by  S.  E.  Thompson  (p.  43^18)  ;  "Labor  turnover,  a  mathe- 
matical discussion/'  by  C.  G.  Barth  (p.  52-58);  "Mutual  rating,  a  contribu- 
tion to  the  technique  of  participation,"  by  H.  W.  Shelton  (p.  59-67);  "The 
heed  of  better  management  in  mining  operations,"  by  H.  Archbald  (p.  68-78). 

Proceedings  of  the  Rochester  meeting,  May  6-8,  1920  (in  v.  5,  Nos.  3,  4), 
which  included  papers  on  "  The  necessity  for  standards  in  the  relation  between 
illumination  and  output,"  by  Ward  Harrison  (p.  113-119);  "Can  industrial 
democracy  be  efficient?  The  Rochester  plan,"  by  Meyer  Jacobstein  (p.  153- 
159)  ;  "  The  worker's  reaction  to  scientific  management,"  by  W.  R.  Leiserson 
(p.  160-177). 

"The  three-shift  system  in  the  steel  industry,"  by  Horace  B.  Drury  (in  v. 
6,  No.  1 ) ,  the  results  of  an  investigation  under  the  Cabot  fund  ( see  p.  91 )  pre- 
sented at  the  New  York  meeting  December  3,  1920.  with  discussion  thereon. 

A  symposium  on  "  Stop-watch  time  study"  (v.  6,  No.  3),  consisting  of  papers 
and  discussion  by  F.  B.  and  L.  M.  Gilbreth  and  others,  before  the  New  York 
and  Philadelphia  sections,  December,  1920,  and  April,  1921. 

The  Cleveland  meeting,  May  19-21,  1921,  included  a  sales  executives'  session 
devoted  to  methods  of  compensation  of  salesmen;  a  personnel  administration 
session,  consisting  of  papers  and  discussions  on  (a)  performance  ratings  and 
bonuses  for  salaried  employees,  (b)  unemployment  scores;  an  industrial  rela- 
tions session,  at  which  there  was  a  symposium  on  joint  action  of  employer  and 
management  in  establishing  standards,  tasks,  rates,  and  other  standard  con- 
ditions. 

RESEARCH  COMMITTEE.— Morris  L.  Cooke,  1109  Finance  Building, 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  chairman.  This  committee  was  appointed  Octo- 
ber, 1919,  to  plan,  arrange  for,  and  supervise  research  in  the  field  of 
administration  and  management  carried  on  by  subcommittees,  indi- 
viduals, and  institutions,  and  to  deliver  the  results  of  such  research 
to  the  managing  director  as  material  for  discussion  at  meetings,  for 
publication  in  the  Bulletin  or  as  pamphlets  or  books,  or  to  be  filed 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,   ETC.  157 

in  the  library  of  the  society  and  thereby  made  available  to  the  mem- 
bers; and  also  to  coordinate  experiments  and  investigations  under- 
taken in  this  field  by  members  and  others. 

The  committee  has  persuaded  the  International  Labor  Office  at 
Geneva  to  send  out  a  questionnaire  on  the  three-shift  day  in  the  steel 
industry;  and  it  has  done  some  work  toward  developing  a  method 
for  measuring  or  establishing  a  quantitative  method  for  studying 
unemployment. 

COMMITTEE  ON  STANDARDS  RELATING  TO  SCIENTIFIC  MANAGEMENT. — 
H.  K.  Hathaway,  1109  Finance  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  chair- 
man. The  purpose  of  this  committee,  appointed  at  the  Rochester 
meeting  May,  1920,  is  to  formulate  standards  relating  to  scientific 
management  for  promulgation  by  the  Taylor  Society.  The  pro- 
gram of  work  to  be  undertaken  was  set  forth  in  a  paper  by  W.  O. 
Lichtner,  read  at  that  meeting  and  published  with  discussion  thereon 
in  the  Bulletin  of  the  Taylor  Society  (v.  5,  No.  4,  August,  1920,  p. 
140-152).  It  includes  promulgation  of  standards  as  to  policy  on 
bonus  payments  and  policy  on  base  rates  and  total  earnings. 

COMMITTEE  ON  SELECTION  AND  TRAINING  OF  SALESMEN. — Appointed 
at  the  request  of  a  conference  of  sales  executives,  held  under  the 
auspices  of  the  society  June  25,  1920,  has  not  yet  published  a  report. 

TECHNICAL  ASSOCIATION  OF  THE  PULP  AND  PAPER  INDUSTRY., 

iV'te  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y.  Thomas  J.  Keenari,  sec- 
retary. 

An  association  organized  for  the  encouragement  of  original  investi- 
gations and  research  work  in  mill  engineering  and  the  chemistry  of 
paper,  cellulose,  and  paper-making  fibers  generally;  affiliated  with 
the  American  Paper  and  Pulp  Association. 

VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION  COMMITTEE. — R.  S.  Kellogg,  News  Print 
Service  Bureau,  New  York,  secretary.  This  committee  and  the  corre- 
sponding committee  of  the  Technical  Section  of  the  Canadian  Pulp 
and  Paper  Association  have,  through  their  joint  executive  committee, 
raised  about  $30,000  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  which  is  being 
used  in  the  preparation  and  publication  of  a  course  of  instruction  for 
employees  of  pulp  and  paper  mills.  A  survey  of  several  different 
typical  plants,  including  an  analysis  of  the  principal  pay-roll  jobs, 
lias  been  made  for  the  joint  executive  committee  by  Mr.  J.  C.  Wright, 
of  the  Federal  Board  of  Vocational  Education,  for  the  purpose  of 
determining  the  jobs  or  occupations  for  which  specific  vocational 
training  can  and  should  be  given,  the  specific  character  of  the  in- 
struction appropriate  to  each,  the  line  of  promotion,  etc.  The  fol- 
lowing pamphlet  (reprinted  from  Paper  Trade  Journal)  contains 
the  results  of  this  survey : 

Vocational  education  in  the  pulp  and  paper  industry :  scope  of  vocational  edu- 
cation, analyses  of  pay-roll  jobs  and  synopsis  of  the  textbooks.  By  J.  C.  Wright. 
New  York,  1921.  71  p. 

A  series  of  textbooks  for  the  course  on  the  manufacture  of  pulp 
and  paper  is  in  preparation  (J.  N.  Stephenson,  editor)  to  be  pub- 
lished by  the  McGraw-Hill  Publishing  Co.  in  five  volumes  and  also 
in  pamphlet  form  in  sets  corresponding  to  each  volume.  The  first 
two  volumes,  containing  preliminary  subjects  essential  to  a  study  of 
the  technical  matter  in  volumes  3-5,  have  been  completed, 


158  311.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 


TOLEDO  CONSUMERS'  LEAGUE. 

#05  Bank  of  Commerce  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

The  results  of  a  survey  of  "  Toledo  children  who  leave  school  for 
work,"  undertaken  by  the  league  in  cooperation  with  the  Toledo 
woman's  committee  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  was  pub- 
lished in  1D21  as  No.  31  of  its  series  of  pamphlets  (31  p.). 

TRAINING  SCHOOL  AT  VINELAND,  N.  J. 

Vineland,  N.  J.    E.  R.  Johnston,  director. 

An  institution  devoted  to  the  interests  of  those  whose  minds  have 
not  developed  normally  (not  a  State  institution,  but  the  State  of  New 
Jersey  sends  some  of  its  pupils  here). 

DEPARTMENT  or  KESEABOH. — S.  D.  Porteus,  director.  Established 
in  19(X>,  the  general  scope  of  the  work  of  this  department  has 
research  on  the  problems  of  (1)  the  recognition,  (2)  the  causation, 
and  (3)  the  prevention  of  mental  defect.  The  results  of  its  studies 
are  published  as  monographs  in  its  Publications,  Nos.  1-23,  or  a;s 
papers  in  The  Training  School  Bulletin-,  issued  monthly  by  the  in- 
stitution. 

The  work  on  the  recognition  of  mental  defect  has  involved  the 
standardization  of  new  tests  and  the  modification  and  revision  of  ex- 
isting series.  The  following  publications  contain  material  bearing 
on  industrial  competency  and  stability: 

No.  16.  Porteus  tests — Vineland  revision.  By  S.  D.  Porteus.  1910.  44  p. 
(These  tests  have  a  hi#h  correlation  with  industrial  ability  of  individuals  either 
just  above  or  below  the  social  efficiency  level.) 

No.  20.  Intelligence  iunl  .social  valuations  :  a  practical  method  for  tlie  diagnosis 
of  mental  deficiency  and  other  forms  of  social  inefficiency.  By  R.  J.  A.  Berry 
and  S.  D.  Porteus.  1920.  100  p. 

No.  23.  A  study  of  personality  of  defectives  with  a  social  ratings  scale.  By 
S.  D.  Porteus.  1921.  24  p. 

The  department  has  also  published  translations  of  the  writings  of 
Binet  and  Simon  (Publications,  Nos.  11,  12)  and  a  "  Condensed  guide 
to  the  Binet  tests"  (Publication  No.  19;  Training  School  Bulletin, 
v.  17,  Nos.  1-2,  March-April,  1920) . 

An  industrial  capacity  scale,  briefly  noted  in  Publication  No.  IT  UA 
standardized  information  record"  (p.  5),  is  being  tried  out  and  the 
results  will  shortly  be  published.     This  scale  represents  an  attempt 
to  give  comparative  numerical  ratings  to  children  engaged  in 
ferent  industrial  occupations,  which  have  been  classified  according  to 
manual  skill  involved,  judgment  required,  special  knowledge  sue 
the   handling   of   machinery,   and    responsibility    placed   upon 
worker  to  work  without  supervision  and  then  each  has  been  analyzed 
into  ten  steps  of  increasing  difficulty,  the  basis  of  arrangement  taking 
into  consideration  such  factors  as  importance  of  the  work,  value  of 
the  material  dealt  with,  personal  risk  to  the  worker,  judgment  and 
skill. 

TRAVELERS  INSURANCE  CO. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

ENGINEERING  AND  INSPECTION  DIVISION. — John  L.  Thompson, 
superintendent.  One  of  the  primary  duties  of  this  division  is  to 
make  recommendations  on  safety  and  accident  prevention  for  all 
such  risks  as  are  insured  by  the  company  under  compensation  and 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  159 

liability  policies.     It  has  a;  -y  prepared  and  issued  the  fol- 

lowing publications  dealing  with  safety  matters  : 

Industrial    standards,   Elevators.    Accident   prevention    in   paper  mill*,   The 

emu.'oyee  uiul  accident  prevention,  Safety  in  moving-picture  fcbeaterSj  Accident 

prevention  on  the  farm,  Accident  prevention  in  brick-making,  .Safety  in  build- 

ing construction,  Safety  in  the  machine,  shop,  Reciprocating  engines  and  steam 

turbines,  Grinding  wli--"K  Boiler  economy,  Illumination  in  paper  mills,  Fore- 

jiid  accident  prevention,  Organization  of  safety  work  in  industrial  phmte, 

>;•  vehides  and  safety,  Coal  mining  hazards,  Boil,  ,  Safe  foundry 

practice,  A  treatise  on  safety  ongineeJ'iug  us  applied  to  scaffolds. 

TRAVELING  ENGINEERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

AY.  O.  Thompson  (General  offices.  New  York  Central  Railroad, 

Cleveland,  Ohio),  secretary. 

This  association  has  prepared  the  "  Standard  form  for  examination 
for  firemen,"  (revised  edition  1919),  which  is  revised  from  time  to 
time  by  its  Committee  on  Revision  of  Progressive  Examination  for 
Firemen  for  Promotion  and  New  Men.  lor  Employment. 
EDWARD  L.  TRUDEAU  FOUNDATION. 

Saraiiuc  Luke,  N.  Y.     Edward  K.  Baldwin,  M.  D.,  director. 

iugurated  in  Deceinl>er,  1916,  as  a  memorial  to 

.American  pioneer  in  tuberculosis  research  whose  name  it  bears 

and  to  continue  the  to  which  he  had  devoted 

his  life.     The  fund   now   amounts  to   $4^0,000   aud  the   income   is 

devoted  to  the  following  purposes  : 


1.  To  mnhitnin   l.'iboi;  srry   on  research   into  th*»  imtur<j, 
and  treatment  of  tub''1 

2.  To  maintain    r  ruction  for  pliysicmus  and  others  in 

•  ••osi    advanced    knowledge  of  tlic  above  subject,   imder  the  name  of  The 
Trudi'HU   Scliool  of  Tuber-  -ulosis. 

3.  To  offer  younu  ".d  others  the  opportunities  for  research  work, 
while   undergoing                   r    for   the   disease,   through   the   establishment   of 
fellowsli  ; 

In  addition  to  researches  of  more  general  application,  such  as  those 
on  infection  (  Etiological  studies  in  tut>erculosis,  by  K  Brown,  S.  A. 
l^i^tj^off  mid  (i.  Pesquera,  in  Am.  Rev.  Tuberculosis,  v.  3,  No.  10, 
December,  1919),  which  have  a  direct  taafiag  on  industrial  hygiene, 
experimental  work  in  conjunction  with  the  investigations  of  the 
Committee  on  Mortality  from  Tuberculosis  in  Dusty  Trades  of  the 
National  Tuberculosis  Association  has  been  carried  on  in  the  Saranac 
Laboratory  under  a  Trudeau  Foundation  fellowship.  The  follow- 
ing is  the  first  publication  of  results  of  these  experiments  : 

Gardner,  Leroy  U.  Studies  on  the  relation  of  mineral  dusts  to  tuberculosis. 
I.  The  relatively  early  lesions  in  experi  mental  pneiunokoniosis  produced  by 
granite  inhalation  and  their  inl!in'iM-e  oa  pulmonary  tuberculosis.  (Am.  Rev. 
Tul>erculosis,  v.  4,  No.  10,  Dec,,  1920.) 

UNDERWRITERS'  LABORATORIES. 

yOT  East  Ohio  Street,  Chicago,  111.     W.  H.  Merrill,  president. 

Established  and  maintained  by  the  National  Board  of  Fire  Un- 
derwriters, for  service  —  riot  profit:  incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
the  State  of  Illinois  in  November,  1901.  The  object  of  Underwriters' 
laboratories  is  to  bring  to  the  user  the  best  obtainable  opinion  on 
tne  merits  of  appliances,  devices,  machines,  and  materials  in  respect 
to  life  and  fire  hazards  and  accident  prevention.  Branch  offices  are 
located  throughout  the  United  States  and  Canada  and  in  England. 


160  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

The  New  York  office  (25  City  Hall  Place)  is  equipped  for  the  con- 
duct of  examinations  and  tests  of  all  electrical  devices  under  the 
same  conditions  as  those  afforded  at  the  principal  office  and  testing 
station  at  Chicago. 

Summaries  of  the  Laboratories'  reports  are  issued  on  printed  cards 
filed  according  to  classifications,  and  cabinets  containing  these  cards 
are  maintained  at  the  offices  of  the  principal  boards  of  underwriters 
and  inspection  bureaus  in  the  United  States,  at  many  of  the  general 
offices  of  insurance  companies,  by  some  insurance  firms,  certain  Fed- 
eral, State  and  municipal  departments,  and  at  the  local  offices  of  the 
Laboratories  in  large  cities.  Much  of  the  information  is  also  freely 
distributed  by  many  of  the  following  lists  which  are,  as  a  rule,  re- 
vised semiannually : 

List  of  inspected  mechanical  appliances.    July,  1920.    101  p. 
List  of  inspected  electrical  appliances.    Apr.,  1920.    204  p. 

-  Supplement.    Oct.,  1920.    16  p. 

List  of  appliances  inspected  for  accident  hazard.     Oct.,  1920.     24  p. 
List  of  inspected  automotive  appliances.    Apr.,  1920.    20  p. 

The  results  of  the  work  in  many  classes  of  appliances  are  fur- 
nished directly  to  building  owners,"  architects,  users  and  other  per- 
sons interested,  by  means  of  the  Laboratories'  label  service,  under 
which  goods  are  inspected  at  factories  by  Laboratories'  engineers  and 
stamps  or  labels  attached  to  such  portion  of  the  output  as  is  found 
constructed  in  accordance  wTith  standard  requirements. 

Schedules  of  fees  for  examinations  and  tests  and  of  charges  for 
labels,  as  well  as  information  regarding  the  three  forms  of  super- 
vision over  goods  marketed  under  the  approvals,  namely,  the  reex- 
amination,  inspection,  and  label  services,  and  a  list  of  the  addresses  of 
branch  offices,  are  given  in  the  following  pamphlet,  obtainable  on 
application : 

The  organization,  purposo.  and  methods  of  Underwriters'  Laboratories. 
1917.  45  p. 

Underwriters'  Laboratories  is  one  of  the  cooperating  organizations 
which  constitute  the  Electrical  Safety  Conference  (see  p.  100)  and  is 
represented  in  the  Fire  Protection  Group  of  the  American  Engineer- 
ing Standards  Committee  (see  p.  72). 

UNITED  ENGINEERING  SOCIETY. 

See  Engineering  Foundation  (p.  102). 

UNITED  TYPOTHETJE  OF  AMERICA. 

608  South  Dearborn  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

An  international  association  of  master  printers  organized  in  two 
divisions,  viz :  The  Closed  Shop  Branch  and  the  Open  Shop  Branch, 
each  having  complete  autonomy  in  labor  matters  and  full  control  of 
its  own  finances.  Each  branch  appoints  three  members  of  its  board 
of  governors  to  the  Industrial  Relations  Committee  of  the  association, 
created  to  enable  the  Open  Shop  and  Closed  Shop  branches  to  co- 
operate, if  they  so  desire,  in  labor  matters  of  mutual  interest. 

The  Closed  Shop  Branch  joined  with  two  other  employers'  organi- 
zations, namely,  the  Printers'  League  of  America  and  the  Interna- 
tional Association  of  Employing  Stereotypers  and  Electrotypers,  and 
the  four  international  unions  to  establish  in  April,  1919,  "  The  Inter- 


ASSOCIATIONS,   SOCIETIES,   FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  161 

national  Joint  Conference  Council  " 25  to  investigate  and  legislate 
upon  matters  of  labor  policy  in  the  commercial  and  periodical 
branches  of  the  printing  industry. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS. — F.  A.  Silcox,  director. 
Established  in  1919  "  to  provide  within  the  printing  industry  cen- 
tralized investigation,  coordination,  analysis,  interpretation,  and  dis- 
tribution of  information  on  the  problem  of  industrial  relations  be- 
tween employer  and  employee  which  will  eventually  lay  the  founda- 
tion for  the  formulation  of  broad,  constructive  policies  leading  to 
greater  uniformity  in  wages  and  existing  conditions,  and  to  the  elimi- 
nation  of  strikes  through  voluntary  conciliation  and  arbitration."  Its 
annual  reports  are  published  in  the  convention  numbers  of  the  Ty- 
pothetse  Bulletin  (e.  g.,  December,  1919,  October,  1920).  Expendi- 
tures of  the  department  during  the  year  1919-20  amounted  to  ap- 
proximately $30,000. 

Labor  statistics  questionnaires  sent  by  this  department  to  all  mem- 
bers of  the  United  Typothetse  of  America  have  enabled  it  to  make  an 
analysis  of  the  labor  policy  followed  in  the  shop  of  each  member, 
the  number  of  employees  at  work  in  the  mechanical  department,  and 
the  number  of  apprentices  employed  in  relation  to  total  employees. 

Data  regarding  plans  for  training  apprentices,  which  are  being 
tried  out  in  different  parts  of  the  country,  have  been  collected  and 
published  in  a  series  of  four  articles  by  Francis  H.  Bird,  assistant 
director,  in  Typothetse  Bulletin,  April- July,  1920. 

A  survey  of  profit-sharing  and  bonuses  in  Chicago  printing  plants 
has  recently  been  made  by  F.  E.  Wolfe,  of  the  research  staff  of  the 
department,  and  the  results  wore  published  in  the  Journal  of  Politi- 
cal Economy,  July,  19'2L  (p.  521~542)  ;  two  reports  from  this  investi- 
gation, which  covered  138  establishments,  have  appeared  in  Ty- 
pothetse Bulletin,  December,  1920  (p.  18-23),  and  February,  1921  (p. 
5-7).  A  brief  report  on  "group  life  insurance  in  Chicago  printing 
plants,"  by  F.  E.  Wolfe,  was  published  in  Typothetse  Bulletin,  Jan- 
uary, 1921  (p.  6-7). 

In  cooperation  with  the  National  Industrial  Conference  Board  a 
contractual  relations  survey  has  been  undertaken  by  questionnaires 
sent  out  to  1,000  members  seeking  information  on  their  experience 
with  agreements  with  labor  organizations.  Contracts  with  different 
unions  in  various  cities  have  been  analyzed  and  arranged  in  compara- 
tive form  for  use  of  scale  committees. 

Other  material  prepared  by  the  department  includes  articles  and 
charts  on  changes  in  cost  of 'living  and  printers'  wages  (in  various 
numbers  of  Typothetse  Bulletin);  wage  scales  (with  emergency 
bonuses)  compiled  from  reports  of  local  Typotheta?  secretaries  (pub- 
lished monthly  as  supplements  to  Typothetae  Bulletin)  ;  a  pamphlet 
entitled  "  Helpful  hints  for  dealing  with  the  wage  problem ;  "  memo- 
randa on  shop  committees  and  other  special  topics. 

COMMITTEE  ON  EDUCATION. — Henry  P.  Porter,  chairman;  Fred- 
erick W.  Hamilton,  education  director  (office  at  2  Park  Square, 
Boston,  Mass.).  This  committee  has  made  a  study  of  the  teaching  of 

25  An  account  of  the  formation  and  subsequent  activities  of  this  council  is  given  in  an 
article  by  C.  R.  Walker,  jr.,  Monthly  Labor  Review  of  the  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statis- 
tics, v.  12,  No.  1,  January,  1021,  p.  23-44;  also  reprinted  separately  by  the  Bureau  of 
Industrial  Research,  New  York. 

70723°— Bull.  299—21 11 


162  III.    NONOFFICIAL,  AGENCIi 

printing  which  has  been  introduced  widely  in  public  schools,  and  has 
embodied  its  findings  and  recommendations  in  a  pamphlet  published 
in  1919  under  the  title  "Instruction  in  printing  in  public  schools" 
(34  p.).  This  contains  also  a  list  of  64  textbooks  in  the  "Typo- 
graphic technical  series  for  apprentices"  (or  U.  T.  A.  Typographic 
Library)  prepared  under  the  supervision  of  the  committee  for  use  in 
,:rade  classes  in  courses  of  printing  instruction,  and  by  individuals; 
about  half  of  these  have  been  published  to  date. 

Standard  cost  finding,  accounting,  estimating  and  salesmanship 
courses,  for  printers,  have  been  in  operation  by  correspondence  lor 
several  years. 

The  United  Typothetae  of  America  School  of  Printing,  1500  East 
Michigan  Street,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  was  established  by  the  associa- 
tion in  1904. 

^  Further  information  regarding  educational  activities  is  given  in 
reports  made  to  the  1920  convention  (Typothetse  Bulletin,  v.  14,  No. 
2,  Oct.,  1920,  p.  47-91). 

VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION  ASSOCIATION  OF  THE  MIDDLE  WEST. 
L.  W.  Wahlstrom,  1711  Estes  Avenue,  Chicago,  secretary. 

Organized  in  1914  "to  study  problems  relating  to  vocational  edu- 
cation and  to  bring  the  results  of  this  study  to  public  attention  for 
the  purpose  of  fostering  types  of  education  that  will  meet  the  voca- 
tional needs  of  youth  and  the  reasonable  demands  of  industry  for 
efficient  workers,  while  preserving  those  elements  of  general  educa- 
tion necessary  for  good  citizenship  in  a  democracy."  Its  present 
membership  is  about  650  (annual  dues,  $1  a  year).  Meetings  are 
held  annually,  in  January  or  February. 

The  association  has  published  the  Proceedings  of  the  second  and 
third  annual  conventions  (1916,  1917).  In  1916  separate  sessions 
were  devoted  to  "  Work  for  women "  and  "  School  and  employ- 
ment;" in  1917,  to  "Work  for  women"  and  "Vocational  education 
from  the  standpoint  of  organized  labor."  In  1920  a  joint  convention 
was  held  at  Chicago  with  the- National  Society  for  Vocational  Edu- 
cation (see  p.  135)  and  the  proceedings  published  in  its  Bulletin 
No.  32. 

At  the  Minneapolis  convention,  February,  1921,  the  following 
special  committees  presented  reports  at  sectional  meetings:  Indus- 
trial education  (on  standards  in  part-time  education)  ;  Commercial 
education;  Vocational  guidance  (on  the  applications  of  psychology 
to  problems  of  vocational  guidance).  The  vocational  guidance  pro- 
grams were  carried  out  in  cooperation  with -the  Vocational  Guid- 
ance Association  of  Minneapolis. 

VOCATIONAL     GUIDANCE     AND     EMPLOYMENT     SERVICE     FOE 
JUNIORS. 

17  Lexington  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y.    Mrs,  Alice  K.  Pollitzer, 

director. 

In  connection  with  the  work  of  this  service  psychological  tests  are 
being  applied  to  classes  and  groups  of  students  in  the  New  York 
City  schools.  Results  of  application  of  the  Otis  intelligence  test  and 
the  correlations  between  Regents'  marks,  as  well  as  teachers'  ratings, 
and  I.  Q,  are  available  for  certain  dressmaking  and  industrial  art 
classes. 


ASSOCIATIONS,  SOCIETIES,  FOUNDATIONS,  ETC.  163 

In  the  fall  of  1920  psychological  tests  were  given  by  Dr.  Ruth 
Clark,  of  this  service,  in  the  West  Side  Continuation  School,  which 
provides  instruction  for  employed  children  for  four  hours  a  week, 
and  the  results  have  been  used  as  an  aid  in  arranging  their  classwork 
to  fit  their  individual  needs  and  for  the  guidance  of  the  placement 
secretaries  when  interviewing  applicants  for  employment. 

WESTERN  EFFICIENCY  SOCIETY. 

327  South  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

Organized  December,  1912,  and  incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
Illinois  February,  1913,  for  the  promotion  of  efficiency  in  commer- 
cial, financial,  public  service,  and  industrial  enterprises.* 

In  May,  1917,  under  the  auspices  of  this  society  was  held  a  national 
conference  on  "  The  human  factor  in  industrial  preparedness,"  at 
which  the  Society  of  Industrial  Engineers  was  organized.  The  re- 
port of  its  proceedings  (212  p.)  consists  of  papers  on  personnel 
questions. 

In  March,  1918,  a  national  conference  on  "  Labor  problems  under 
war  conditions  "  was  held  under  the  joint  auspices  of  the  Society  of 
Industrial  Engineers  and  the  Western  Efficiency  Society.  The  pro- 
ceedings of  this  conference  (222  p.)  include  "Women  in  industry ," 
by  C.  E.  Knoeppel,  based  on  answers  to  1,000  questionnaires  (p. 
28-72;  also  issued  by  the  author's  firm  with  additional  material  as  a 
monograph,  123  p.) 

The  society  is  organized  in  functional  management  sections,  each 
of  which  meets  twice  a  month  or  oftener.  Papers  read  at  the  meet- 
ings have  been  published  up  to  August  30,  1920,  in  the  society's  Bul- 
letin (v.  1-4,  Nos.  1-76),  which  has  been  superseded  by  Business 
Crucible,  published  monthly  from  November,  1920. 

PERSONNEL  AND  EMPLOYMENT  MANAGEMENT  SECTION. — This  group 
published  in  July,  1918,  "  A  questionnaire  digest  on  methods  of  wage 
payment "  (52  p.). 

WOMAN'S  OCCUPATIONAL  BUREAU. 

216  Meyers  Arcade,  Minneapolis,  Minn.     Margaret  A.  Smith, 

manager. 

In  1919  the  Vocational  Informational  Service  of  this  bureau  pub- 
lished Occupational  Bulletins  Nos.  1,  2,  viz : 

No.  1.  Womt'n  in  banking  in  the  city  of  Minneapolis.    23  p. 
No.  2.  War-time  replacement  in  the  city  of  Minneapolis.    19  p. 

The  tables  in  the  latter  were  compiled  from  data  collected  in  the 
Industrial  Survey  of  Women  employed  outside  the  home  made  by 
the  Women  in  Industry  Committee  of  the  Women's  Division,  Minne- 
sota Commission  of  Public  Safety  and  the  Bureau  of  Women  an^ 
Children,  State  Department  of  Labor  and  Industries  with  the  co- 
operation of  this  bureau. 

The  bureau  has  also  published  the  results  of  three  short  studies  on 
"  Home  economics  positions  in  Minneapolis,"  "  The  field  of  social 
service,"  and  "  Opportunities  for  women  in  journalism." 

WOMEN'S  EDUCATIONAL  AND  INDUSTRIAL  UNION. 

264  Boylston  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Organized  1877  and  incorporated  1880,  to  promote  the  educational, 
industrial,  and  social  advancement  of  women. 


164  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  RESEARCH. — Miss  Lucile  Eaves,  director.  The  re- 
sults of  investigations  made  by  this  department  and  published  1910- 
1921,  mainly  by  other  agencies,  have  been  issued  in  a  series  entitled 
"  Studies  in  economic  relations  of  women"  (v.  1-11).  They  include 
studies  of  dressmaking  (v.  4),  millinery  (v.  5),  and  the  boot  and  shoe 
Industry  (v.  6)  as  trades  for  women ;  industrial  home  work  in  Massa- 
chusetts (v.  7) ;  the  public  schools  and  women  in  office  service  (v.  8) ; 
industrial  experience  of  trade-school  girls  in  Massachusetts  (v.  9)  ; 
the  food  of  working  women  in  Boston  (v.  10)  ;  old-age  support  of 
women  teachers  (v.  11).  Of  these,  volumes  4,  6,  9,  were  published 
by  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  as  its  Bulletins  Nos. 
193,  180,  215;  volume  7  by  Massachusetts  Bureau  of  Statistics  as 
Labor  Bulletin  101;  volume  8  by  Boston  School  Committee;  and 
volume  10  by  Massachusetts  Department  of  Health.  "  Women  pro- 
fessional workers,"  a  study  made  for  the  Union  by  Elizabeth  Kemper 
Adams,  and  published  in  1921  by  the  Macmillan  Co.,  New  York, 
largely  supersedes  volume  1  of  the  above  series,  "  Vocations  for  the 
trained  woman." 

During  1917-18  a  study  of  the  vocational  experience  of  juvenile 
employees  in  Boston  was  made.  A  report  of  the  investigations  in  re- 
tail departments,  dry  goods  and  clothing  stores  was  published  in  1920 
under  the  title  "Training  for  store  service"  (143  p.).  A  list  of  the 
unpublished  statistical  material  tabulated  by  the  department  while 
making  this  study  in  retail  stores  is  given  on  pages  127-132  of  the 
report.  Investigators  wishing  to  compare  this  unpublished  data 
with  similar  data  collected  in  other  cities  may  obtain  any  of  the 
tables  in  the  list  by  paying  the  cost  of  copying  and  mailing.  Simi- 
lar studies  of  the  experiences  of  young  persons  in  confectionery 
works,  printing  offices,  grocery  stores,  and  hotels  have  been  com- 
pleted, but  are  not  yet  published.  Another  unpublished  study  re- 
lates to  1.000  cases  of  illiterate  foreign  born  (how  employed,  rela- 
tive earnings,  and  chance  of  promotion). 

Investigations  in  progress  during  the  current  year  deal  with  the 
subject  "Methods  by  which  self-supporting  women  may  provide  for 
their  old  age."  The  report  is  to  form  volume  12  of  the  above  series. 

Three  fellowships  in  social-economic  research  carrying  a  stipend 
of  $500  are  awarded  annually  to  women  who  are  college  graduates 
trained  in  economics  or  sociology.  They  are  given  a  year's  training 
in  the  department  on  schedules,  field  work,  construction  and  interpre- 
tation of  statistical  tables,  and  the  literary  presentation  of  results  and 
carry  out  a  cooperative  investigation  of  the  subject  selected  for  the 
years  work.  This  fulfills  the  requirements  for  the  degree  of  M.  S.  in 
research  at  iSimmons  College  (see  p.  193),  with  which  the  department 
is  affiliated. 

WORKERS'  HEALTH  BUREAU. 

Saint  Denis  Offices,  Broadway  and  Eleventh  Street,  New  York, 
N.  Y.     Grace  M.  Burnham,  Harriet  Silverman,  directors. 

Incorporated  in  1921,  this  organization  is  devoted  to  planning,  in- 
stalling, and  supervising  health  service  for  trade-unions.  The  work 
which  it  is  organized  to  do  is  defined  as  follows: 

1.  To  conduct  a  scientific  industrial  study  of  the  health  needs  of  any  trade- 
union. 

2.  To  recommend  a  complete  health  program  for  that  trade-union  based  on 
such  a  study. 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  165 

3.  To  recommend   an   educational   program    completely   covering   the  subject 
of  workers'  health. 

4.  To  establish  health  departments  within  trade-union  locals,   such  depart- 
ments to  specialize  in  preventive  work,  including  thorough  medical  and  dental 
examinations. 

5.  To   train   workers'   health   committees   to   carry   out   the  health   program 
in  the  workshop. 

('..  To  select  with  scrupulous  care,  trained  doctors,  nurses,  and  teachers  re- 
quired in  conducting  the  union  health  work. 

WORKMEN'S  CIRCLE. 

175  East  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y.    George  Rubin,  statistician. 

A  fraternal  organization  with  about  82,000  members  and  642 
branches  distributed  throughout  the  United  States  and  Canada. 

A  statistical  review  of  disability  based  upon  an  analysis  of  its 
records  has  been  completed  recently  and  published  in  Modern  Medi- 
cine (v.  2,  No.  11,  November,  1920,' p.  730-733). 

YOUNG    WOMAN'S    CHRISTIAN    ASSOCIATION,   NEW    YORK    CITY, 
CENTRAL  BRANCH. 

OK)  Lexington  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

In  1919-20  the  Employment  Department  of  this  branch  and  the 
Industrial  Department  of  the  War  Work  Council  of  the  National 
Board,  Young  Woman's  Christian  Association  made  a  factory  sur- 
vey of  opportunities  for  executive  and  technical  women,  covering 
250  shops  in  the  Greater  New  York  industrial  district  and  the  New 
Jersey  factory  belt  which  employed  200  or  more  women.  The  re- 
port prepared  by  Janet  R.  Huntington,  in  charge  of  survey,  was 
published  in  1920  under  the  title  "Executive  and  technical  women 
in  factories  "  (19  p.). 

(b)  UNIVERSITIES  AND  COLLEGES. 

MUNICIPAL  UNIVERSITY  OF  AKRON. 

Akron,  Ohio. 

COLLEGE  OF  ENGINEERING. — Fred  E.  Ayer,  dean.  Established  in 
1914,  this  college  has  a  five-year  cooperative  engineering  course, 
patterned  after  the  "  Cincinnati  plan,"  in  which  the  students  are 
grouped  in  two  sections,  one  of  which  is  at  work  in  local  engineering 
shops  (at  a  minimum  wage  of  30  cents  per  hour)  and  the  other  in 
attendance  at  the  university,  and  these  sections  change  places  every 
two  weeks.  The  shop  work  and  the  university  work  are  coordinated 
by  technically  trained  men  experienced  in  engineering  practice. 

A  cooperative  course  in  municipal  engineering  has  been  arranged 
in  which  the  students  work  half  time  in  the  different  engineering 
departments  of  the  city  of  Akron. 

Three  of  the  large  rubber  companies  in  Akron  have  united  in 
establishing  about  30  industrial  scholarships  for  the  purpose  of 
training  men  by  the  cooperative  plan  in  manufacturing  production. 
The  company  pays  the  university  tuition  and  fees  of  the  student  and 
employs  him  at  the  rate  of  $75  per  month  during  his  alternate  two- 
week  periods  in  the  production  department  of  the  factory,  the  work 
being  carefully  arranged  so  that  he  will  spend  some  time  in  every 
department  of  the  plant.  The  length  of  this  course  is  four  years  of 
eleven  months  each. 


166  III.    NONOFFICIAL,   AGENCIES. 

BOSTON  UNIVERSITY. 

525  Boylston  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Vocational  guidance  3,  one  of  the  late  afternoon  courses  for  teach- 
ers and  other  special  students,  is  a  rersearch  course  in  this  field  con- 
ducted by  Frederick  J.  Allen,  of  the  Bureau  of  Vocational  Guidance, 
Harvard  University.  Each  member  of  the  class  carries  on  individual 
research  into  a  special  problem,  such  as  the  study  of  methods  in 
establishing  a  vocational  bureau  in  a  community  or  school  system,  an 
occupational,  educational  or  social  survey,  or  the  extended  study  of  a 
particular  business  or  industry. 

COLLEGE  OF  BUSINESS  ADMINISTRATION. — A  course  on  employment 
management  practice  (B-55,  50),  two  hours  each  week  throughout 
the  year,  is  given  in  the  evening  division  by  Mr.  Ralph  G.  Wells, 
and  special  lecturers.    It  was  inaugurated  by  the  Employment  IV'l 
gers'  Association,  Boston. 

BROWN  UNIVERSITY. 

Providence,  R.  I. 

SCHOOL  OF  EDUCATION. — Stephen  S.  Colvin,  director.  A  series  of 
group  intelligence  tests,  designated  the  Brown  University  tests,  has 
been  compiled  by  the  director.  It  includes  two  completion  tests,  two 
vocabulary  tests,  two  opposite  tests,  two  analogies  tests,  one  facts- 
and-conclusions  test,  and  one  arithmetic  test.  The  results  obtained 
in  the  administration  of  these  tests  are  given  in  the  following  articles 
by  Prof.  Colvin: 

Psychological  tests  at  Brown  University.  (School  and  Society,  v.  10,  No. 
236,  July  5,  1919,  p.  27-30.) 

The  validity  of  psychological  tests  for  college  entrance.  (Educational  Rev, 
v.  60,  No.  1,  June,  1920,  p.  7-17.) 

Educational  guidance  and  tests  in  college.  (Shortly  to  appear  in  Journal 
of  Applied  Psychology.) 

The  use  of  intelligence  tests  in  Brown  University.  (Shortly  to  appear  in 
Educational  Review.) 

BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE. 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

CAROLA  WOERISHOFFER  GRADUATE  DEPARTMENT  OF  SOCIAL  ECONOMY 
AND  SOCIAL,  RESEARCH. — Dr.  Susan  M.  Kingsbury,  director.  Estab- 
lished in  1915  as  a  graduate  school  to  prepare  students  for  profes- 
sional service  dealing  with  industrial  and  social  relations.  In  1918, 
with  the  support  and  cooperation  of  the  National  War  Council  of 
the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association,  courses  in  industrial 
supervision  and  employment  management  were  introduced  to  meet 
the  demands  of  industry  for  trained  women  to  fill  positions  as  super- 
visors of  women's  work,  employment  managers,  etc.  This  division 
has  now  been  made  permanent,  as  the  Grace  H.  Dodge  Foundation, 
through  a  fund  of  $100,000  recently  given  to  Bryn  Mawr  College  by 
Mr.  John  D.  Rockefeller,  jr.,  for  the  endowment  of  instruction  in 
industrial  relations  in  this  department,  and  additional  endowment 
is  being  raised  to  provide  scholarships  and  fellowships. 

The  instruction  in  industrial  supervision  and  personnel  administra- 
tion is  given  by  Miss  Gladys  Boone  and  includes  a  graduate  course 
dealing  with  the  problems  and  technique  of  personnel  administration 
and  three  seminars  in  labor  organization,  research  in  labor  prob- 
lems, and  social  economy  applied  to  industrial  supervision  and  per- 
sonnel administration,  respectively  (each  two  hours  a  week  through- 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  167 

out  the  year).  The  last-named  seminar  includes  a  practicum  of  V 
or  12  hours'  field  work  per  week  in  industrial  experience  in  or  near 
Philadelphia  during  the  college  year,  and  two  months  of  nonresident 
work  in  an  industrial  or  mercantile  establishment  during  the  follow- 
ing summer,  under  the  supervision  of  the  instructor.  The  firms 
which  have  cooperated  in  giving  experience  to  students  either  in  the 
employment  office  or  in  the  factory  are  listed  in  the  announcements 
of  the  department  and  the  college  calendar  of  graduate  courses  1921  > 
which  also  give  information  regarding  scholarships  and  fellowships 
available  for  students  in  this  group. 

The  seminar  in  social  and  industrial  research,  offered  by  the  di- 
rector, is  devoted  to  training  in  field  investigations  and  the  analysis 
and  interpretation  of  data  secured. 

Among  the  subjects  of  seminar  researches  recently  made  are  the 
following:  Analysis  of  labor  turnover  for  some  large  industrial  con- 
cerns ;  substitution  of  women  for  men  on  the  Pennsylvania  railroad ; 
mothers  in  industry  in  Philadelphia;  women  who  manufacture  in 
their  homes  for  industry  (in  cooperation  with  the  State  Department 
of  Labor  and  Industry). 

PSYCHOLOGICAL  LABORATORY. — Prof.  C.  E.  Ferree,  director.  The 
principal  researches  of  this  laboratory  in  the  field  of  industrial 
hology  have  been  in  special  physiological  and  sensory  tests 
for  vocational  selection  and  in  the  study  of  hygienic  conditions  of 
work,  particularly  as  regards  the  question  of  illumination.  Studies 
have  been  made  by  Prof.  Ferree  and  Dr.  Gertrude  Rand  on  the  effect 
of  intensity,  distribution,  and  color  of  light  on  ocular  functions, 
individual  differences  in  speed  of  discrimination  of  the  eye,  power  to 
sustain  clear  seeing,  and  power  to  see  at  low  illuminations.  The  light- 
ing studies  were  made  under  the  auspices  of  the  American  Medical 
Association's  Subcommittee  on  the  Hygiene  of  the  Eye.  The  work 
on  the  speed  of  changes  in  accommodation  of  the  eye  for  different 
distances  was  used  in  the  selection  of  aviators  and  in  checking 
up  their  daily  condition  both  at  Mineola  and  in  France;  the  in- 
vestigation on  acuity  at  low  illuminations  was  made  in  conjunction 
with  the  Navy  Medical  Service  primarily  for  the  use  of  the  Navy 
in  the  selection  of  men  for  lookout  service.  The  results  of  these 
researches  have  been  published  in  the  following  papers  : 

Ferree,  C.  E.  Tests  for  the  efficiency  of  the  eye  under  different  systems  of 
illumination  and  a  preliminary  study  of  the  causes  of  discomfort.  (Transi, 
Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  1913,  v.  8,  p.  40-60.) 

The  efficiency  of  the  eye  under  different  systems  of  lighting".  (Internal;. 
Cong,  on  School  Hygiene,  4th,  Buffalo,  1913,  v.  5,  p.  351-364;  Ophthalmology, 
July,  1914,  p.  1-16;  Mind  and  Body,  1913,  v.  20,  p.  280-286,  345-353.) 

—    The  problem  of  lighting  in  relation  to  the  efficiency  of  the  eye.     (Science, 
July  17,  1914,  N.  S.,  v.  15,  p.  84-91.) 

Ferree,  C.  E.  and  Rand,  Gr.  The  efficiency  of  the  eye  under  different  condi- 
tions of  lighting:  the  effect  of  varying  distribution  and  intensity.  (Trans. 
Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  July,  1915,  v.  10,  p.  407-447.) 

Further  experiments  on  the  efficiency  of  the  eye  under  different  con- 
ditions of  lighting.  (Trans.  Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  July,  1915,  v.  10,  p.  449-501.) 

Some   experiments   on   the   eye  with   inverted    reflectors   of   different 

densities.     (Trans.  Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  1915,  v.  10,  p.  1097-1138.) 

A  resume  of  experiments  on  the  problem  of  lighting  in  its  relation 

to  the  eye.     (Jour.  PMlos.  Psychol.  and  Sci.  Methods,  1915,  v.  12,  p.  657-663.) 

Some  experiments   on   the   eye   with   pendant   reflectors   of   different 

densities.     (Trans.  Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  1916,  v.  11,  p.  1111-1137.) 

Miscellaneous  experiments  on  the  efficiency  of  the  eye  under  different 

conditions  of  lighting.     (Ophthalmology,  July,  1916,  p.  1-25.) 


168  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

Ferree,  C.  K.,  and  Rand,  (J.  A  resume  of  experiments  on  the  effect  of  differ- 
ent conditions  of  lighting  on  the  eye.  (Annals  of  Ophthalmology,  July,  1916, 
p.  1-10.) 

—  The  power  of  the  eye  to  sustain  clear  seeing  under  different  conditions 
of  lighting.     (Jour.  Educ.  Psyehol.,  1917,  v.  8,  p.  451-468.) 

Some  experiments  on  the  eye  with  pendant  opaque  reflectors  differing  in 
lining,  dimensions,  and  design.     (Trans.  Ilium.  Eng.  Soe.,  1917,  v.  12,  p.  464-487.) 

—  Some  experiments  on  the  eye  with  different  illuminants,  parts  I-II. 
(Trans.  Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  1918,  v.  13,  p.  50-60 ;  1919,  v.  14,  p.  107-132.) 

Lighting  in  its  relation  to  the  eye.     (Proc.  Amer.  Philos.  Soc.,  1918,  T. 
57,  No.  5,  p.  440-478.) 

The  inertia  of  adjustment  of  the  eye  for  clear  seeing  at  different  dis- 
tances; a  study  of  ocular  functions  with  special  reference  to  aviation.     (Trans. 
Amer.  Ophthalmological  Soc.,  1918,  v.  16,  p.  142-166;  Amer.  Jour,  of  Ophthal- 
mology, 1918,  v.  1,  p.  764-776.) 

The  speed  of  adjustment  of  the  eye  for  clear  seeing  at  different  dis- 
tances.    (Amer.  Jour.  Psyehol. ,  1919,  v.  30,  p.  40-61.) 

Lantern  and  apparatus  for  testing  the  light  sense  and  for  determining 

acuity  at  low  illuminations.     (Amer.  Jour,  of  Ophthalmology,  v.  3,  No.  5,  May. 
1920.) 

Visual  acuity  at  low  illumination  and  the  use  of  the  illumination  scale 

for  the  detection  of  small  errors  in  refraction.     (Arner.  Jour,  of  Ophthalmology, 
v.  3,  No.  6,  June,  1920.) 

—  An  apparatus  for  testing  the  light  and  the  color  sense.     (Amer.  Jour,  of 
Ophthalmology,  v.  3,  No.  11,  Nov.,  1920.) 

The  effect  of  variations  in  intensity  of  illumination  on  functions  of  im- 
portance to  the  working  eye.     (Trans.  Ilium.  Eng.  Soc.,  Dec.,  1920,  v.  15,  No.  9, 
p.  769-801.) 

A  study  of  the  ideal  reading  page  as  to  coloration,  finish  and  type 
is  being  made  with  the  American  Writing  Paper  Co.,  of  Holyoke. 

In  the  seminar  and  laboratory  course  in  applied  psychology  in- 
telligence testing  is  taught  from  the  point  of  view  of  the  application 
of  tests  in  employment  and  placement  and  the  procedure  in  devising 
tests  for  such  purposes,  and  research  work  is  done  in  connection  with 
vocational  guidance  bureaus. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

Berkeley,  Calif. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  HYGIENE. — Robert  T.  Legge,  M.  D.,  professor  of 
hygiene.  In  this  department  an  investigation  is  being  made  by  Dr. 
John  Force  into  the  cause  of  "  packer's  itch,"  a  dermatitis  found 
among  packers  using  infested  straw.  Another  type  of  occupational 
dermatosis,  which  is  being  investigated  by  Dr.  Legge,  is  that  of  a 
peculiar  infection  of  the  fingers  of  dried  fig  packers.  Problems  of  in- 
dustrial nursing  are  being  studied  by  Miss  Edith  S.  Bryan,  professor 
of  public  health  nursing. 

A  syllabus  of  the  lecture  course  in  industrial  hygiene  given  in  this 
department  for  the  past  six  years  is  published  in  United  States  Pub- 
lic Health  Eeports  (v.  35,  No.  15,  April  9,  1920,  p.  891-893). 

DIVISION  or  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION. — R.  J.  Leonard,  director.  Es- 
tablished in  1919  for  the  purpose  of  unifying  the  various  activities 
in  this  field  carried  on  in  connection  with  the  University  at  Berkeley 
and  its  southern  branch  at  Los  Angeles.  Among  the  special  research 
projects  recently  completed  or  in  progress  by  graduate  students  in 
seminary  are  the  following :  Studies  in  occupational  extension ;  Atti- 
tude of  organized  labor  toward  vocational  education ;  Analysis  of  the 
chemical  industries  of  the  East  Bay  Region  for  purposes  of  voca- 
tional education;  Study  of  the  garment-making  industries  in  San 
Francisco;  Mathematical  and  scientific  work  related  to  the  machine 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  169 

shop  trades ;  How  large  employers  select  personnel ;  The  function  of 
vocational  guidance  and  placement  in  part-time  and  evening  schools; 
Study  of  juvenile  employment  in  Long  Beach ;  Industrial  education 
in  the  junior  high  school ;  Vocational  opportunities  for  girls  of  high 
school  age  in  Oakland. 

RESEARCH  AND  SERVICE  CENTER  FOR  PART-TIME  EDUCATION. — Miss 
Emily  G.  Palmer,  director.  Established  in  1920  under  the  above 
division,  it  is  confining  its  efforts  at  present  to  the  analysis  of  occupa- 
tions as  a  means  of  assisting  continuation  school  teachers.  It  will 
take  up  from  time  to  time  those  matters  which  are  of  greatest  im- 
portance in  furthering  the  scheme  of  State  aid  in  vocational  educa- 
tion. It  has  issued  the  following : 

Bulletin  No.  1.  Syllabus  of  ;;n  introductory  course  on  part-time  education. 
(Out  of  print.) 

Leaflet  No.  1.  Part-time  education  series  No.  1.  A  first  reading  list  for  ad- 
ministrators and  teachers  in  part-time  schools. 

Leaflet  No.  2.  Part-time  education  series  No.  2.  The  work  of  coordination  in 
part-time  education.  (Out  of  print.) 

Bulletin  No.  2.  Part-time  education  series  No.  3.  An  analysis  of  department- 
store  occupations  for  juniors. 

Bulletin  .No.  3.  Part-time  education  series  No.  4.  Coordination  in  part-time 
education. 

Bulletin  No.  4.  Part-time  education  series  No.  5.  An  analysis  of  the  work  of 
juniors  in  banks. 

Part-time  news  notes:  No.  1,  Three  months  of  coordination  in  the  Oakland 

No.  2.  Pro.'JTess  in  part-time  education  in  Los  Angeles;  No.  3,  The  work 

of  the  director  of  part-time  education;  No.  4,  The  application  blank  for  enroll-. 

nu-Mt.  in  part-time  schools:  a  statistical  study,  by  E.  G.  Palmer;  No.  5,  Junior 

employees  in  the  retail  drug  business,  by  H.  A.  Campion. 

CARNEGIE  INSTITUTE  OF  TECHNOLOGY. 

Schenley  Park,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

DIVISION  OF  COOPERATIVE  EESEARCH. — W.  V.  Bingham,  director. 
This  division  was  organized  in  1921  to  encourage  research  in  both 
pure  and  applied  science,  including  the  scientific  aspects  of  human 
relations  in  industry,  and  particularly  to  place  the  facilities  of  the 
institute  at  the  disposal  of  large  industrial  and  commercial  concerns, 
or  associations,  desiring  to  have  systematic  research  carried  out  on 
specific  problems.  It  includes  the  Bureau  of  Personnel  Research  and 
the  Research  Bureau  for  Retail  Training,  which  were  previously 
departments  of  the  Division  of  Applied  Psychology  (superseded  by 
this  new  division).  Additional  departments  are  now  in  process  of 
organization,  viz:  Bureau  of  Educational  Research,  under  the  im- 
mediate supervision  of  Dr.  E.  K.  Strong,  jr. ;  Bureau  of  Science  and 
Engineering  Research,  headed  by  Prof.  A.  J.  Wurts. 

BUREAU  or  PERSONNEL  RESEARCH.— C.  S.  Yoakum,  director.  This 
bureau  was  organized  in  May,  1916,  as  the  Bureau  of  Salesmanship 
Research.  During  the  war  its  officers  and  research  assistants  were 
taken  over  by  the  General  Staff  to  develop  and  administer  the 
personnel  system  of  the  army.26  After  the  return  of  the  staff  from 
Avar,  the  scope  of  the  bureau  was  enlarged  to  include  selection  and 
development  of  clerical  workers  and  executives,  as  well  as  salesmen, 
and  the  present  name  was  adopted  in  June,  1919. 

The  bureau  is  a  joint  enterprise  maintained  by  groups  of  cooperat- 
ing manufacturing  and  commercial  concerns,  through  which  they 

26  The  Committee  on  Classification  of  Personnel  in  the  Army  was  headed  by  Walter 
Dill  Scott  and  W.  V.  Bingham  of  the  bureau  staff. 


170  III.    NONOFFICIAL,  AGKNOl!.- 

pool  their  experience,  exchange  information,  and  initiate  inve;- 
tions  of  problems  of  common  interest  relating  to  employment,  s 
tion,  training,  organization,  and  supervision  of  personnel.  The  in- 
stitute maintains  the  general  research  staff  and  laboratories;  and 
subscriptions  are  received  from  cooperating  firms  in  aid  of  pure 
research  in  personnel  problems.  An  important  portion  of  the  sup- 
port of  the  bureau  comes  from  its  applied  research  on  personnel 
problems  arising  in  the  office,  sales,  or  executive  organization  of  in- 
dividual firms,  for  which  a  minimum  annual  fee  of  $500  is  asked.  In 
addition  to  this  annual  retainer,  a  firm  may  arrange  for  special 
research,  fellowships,  or  the  assignment  of  an  assistant  to  work  on 
its  problems.  Groups  of  firms  may  be  organized  for  special  research, 
in  which  case  the  fees  are  determined  by  group  agreement.  Service 
work  to  business  concerns  through  the  bureau's  staff  is  supported  as 
a  separate  function  under  agreements  with  the  firms  for  which  it  is 
performed,  those  now  in  force  ranging  in  payments  from  $100  to 
|l,000  monthly. 

The  researches  carried  on  by  the  Bureau  of  Salesmanship  Research 
during  the  three  years  1916  to  1919  fall  into  two  groups: 

(a)  Methods  of  selecting  salesmen,  including  preparation  and  issu- 
ance of  the  volume,  "  Aids  in  selecting  salesmen,  series  of  1916,"  con- 
taining application,  interviewer's  and  test  blanks  (28  p.)  ;  develop- 
ment of  norms  and  standards  of  comparison  for  use  in  evaluating 
a  salesman's  performance  in  the  tests;  statistical  studies  of  sources 
of  successful  salesmen. 

(?>)  Methods  of  developing  salesmen,  including  studies  of  types 
01  sales  schools;  studies  of  sales  conventions,  summarized  in  its  Bulle- 
tin No.  21,  issued  in  1919,  entitled  "Sales  conventions"  (26  p.); 
studies,  of  methods  of  supervision,  stimulation  through  house  organs 
and  bulletins,  and  compensation  as  affecting  the  salesman's  pro- 
ductivity. 

A  summary  of  the  available  results  of  the  previous  work  of  the 
bureau  was  published  in  1920  under  the  title  "  Research  in  sales  per- 
sonnel" (60  p.)  ;  and  the  work  done  during  1919-20  on  job  specifica- 
tions relating  to  clerical  personnel  was  issued  as  "Aids  for  selection 
and  placement  of  clerical  personnel"  (130  p.). 

In  February,  1920,  the  bureau  began  sending  out  a  series  of  mimeo- 
graphed reports  covering  the  topics  being  studied,  as  follows  : 

Report  A,  1920.  First-year  production  as  a  measure  of  future  suoces»  in 
selling. 

Report  B,  1920.  A  preliminary  study  of  cleric:)!  workers. 

Report  C,  1920.  Methods  of  measuring  sales  possibilities. 

Report  D,  1920.  Outlines  of  personnel  administration:  (1)  Personnel  de- 
partment— organization  and  employment  i>rom?s;  (2)  Cost  of  living  in  rela- 
tion to  wage  adjustment;  (3)  Use  and  development  of  sources  of  supply; 
(4)  Labor  turnover;  (5)  Education  jind  training;  (6)  Foreman  training; 
(7)  Health  supervision;  (8)  Methods  of  compensation;  (9)  Organization 
studies;  (10)  Follow-up  work;  (11)  Recreation,  welfare,  and  social  work; 
(12)  Employees'  associations  and  organization. 

Report  E,  1920.  Building  a  marketing  organization. 

Report   ;<',  "lt>2O.  Questions  and   answers  on  supervision  of  salesmen. 

Report  H,  1920.  Some  uses?  of  job  analyses:  Pt.  1,  The  zoning  of  jobs — au 
effective  solution  of  some  personnel  problems;  Pt.  2,  The  zoning  of  jobs  and 
determining  a  fair  wage. 

Also  special  reports,  based  on  data  from  cooperating  firms,  dealing  with 
special  topics  in  selection,  training,  measures  oi'  success,  supervision,  and 
organization. 


UNIVERSITIES  AND  COLLEGES.  171 

Other  papers,  and  the  discussion  thereon,  are  printed  in  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  first  full  meeting  (November  1.4,  1919)  and  the  fourth 
annual  meeting  (May  27,  1920)  of  the  board  of  cooperating  mem- 
bers of  the  bureau. 

RESEARCH  BUREAU  FOR  RETAIL  TRAINING.- — W.  W.  Charters,  direc- 
tor. Established  in  1917,  because  certain  of  the  firms  in  the  origi- 
nal Bureau  of  Salesmanship  Research  (v.  supra)  wished  to  develop 
the  training  and  educational  work  more  rapidly,  this  bureau  aims 
(1)  to  provide  a  limited  group  of  able  people  with  technical  train- 
ing for  leadership  in  the  employment  and  educational  departments 
of  general  stores:  (2)  to  train  teachers  for  high-school  courses 
in  selling;  (3)  to  conduct  research  bearing  on  the  human  factor  in 
stores:  the  selection,  placement,  and  individual  development  of 
employees;  (4)  to  cooperate  with  the  public  schools  in(  arranging 
part-time  courses  which  combine  schooling  with  experience  in  stores. 

The  institute  contributes  the  services  of  its  faculty  and  provides 
rooms,  office  force  and  overhead  expenses  in  addition  to  substantial 
support  of  the  training  course.  Seven  Pittsburgh  stores  in  1918  un- 
derwrote $32,000  a  year  for  five  years  for  the  support  of  the  bureau. 

The  bureau  has  successfully  solved  many  problems  in  retail  selling 
and  has  developed  a  technique  in  training  that  can  be  applied  gener- 
ally. Some  of  the  results  of  its  studies  are  issued  in  three  series  of 
bulletins,  as  follows: 

T»nllotin  (goneral  scries)  :  No.  1.  Merchandise  manual  for  shoe  departments, 
liy  Kli/al.-j'th  Dyer.  3021.  No.  2.  The  retail-selling  course  in  Pittsburgh  high 
schools.  By  J.  15.  Miner.  1921. 

Element}!  ry  sorie.s :  No.  1.  Shoes — merchandise  information  for  salespeople. 
By  Elizabeth  Dyer.  1020. 

Instruction  series  :  X<».  1.  Shoos — teaching  instructions  for  training  new  sales- 
people. By  Elizabeth  I>yer.  1020. 

The  training  course  for  personnel  work  in  the  retail  field,  covering 
department-store  administration,  training,  employment  management, 
applied  psychology  (including  mental-test  technique),  and  research, 
and  fellowships  offered,  are  described  in  a  special  bulletin  of  the 
Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology. 

BUREAU  or  EDUCATIONAL  RESEARCH. — E.  K.  Strong,  jr.,  director. 
This  bureau,  established  in  1921,  will  concern  itself  chiefly  with  edu- 
cational problems  arising  within  the  institute,  but  also  has  an  interest 
in  problems  of  education  in  industry.  Research  work  in  this  field 
was  previously  carried  on  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Strong  in 
connectipn  with  the  Vocational  Education  Department.  During 
1920-21  job  analyses  of  the  duties  of  executives  in  the  three  fields  of 
commercial  printing,  building  construction,  and  the  metal-working 
industries  were  made.  The  information  obtained  in  this  survey  has 
thus  far  been  utilized  only  for  the  reorganization  of  the  courses  of 
instruction  in  the  College 'of  Industries  of  the  institute  intended  for 
training  men  to  become  executives  in  these  industries.  Certain  as- 
pects of  the  work  were  dealt  with  in  two  papers  by  the  director, 

namely : 

Analyzing  industrial  requirements.  (Proceedings  of  the  Society  of  Industrial 
Engineers,  Nov.,  1920,  p.  75-32.) 

.[oh  analysis  of  the  manager  in  industry.  (School  and  Society,  v.  13,  p. 
45G-462,  Apr.  16,  1921.) 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY.— L.  L.  Thurstone,  professor  of 
psychology.  This  department  of  the  former  Division  of  Applied 


172  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

Psychology  has  been  transferred  to  the  Division  of  General  Studies, 
but  it  remains  in  close  affiliation  with  the  Division  of  Cooperative 
Research.  It  gives  instruction  in  pure  and  applied  psychology,  sta- 
tistical methods,  personnel  administration,  etc.,  and  conducts  the 
group  tests  given  to  all  students  entering  the  institute. 

Tests  developed  and  published  by  this  department  include:  Pro- 
ficiency test  for  typists;  clerical  examination;  a  series  of  six  tests 
for  college  freshmen  and  high-school  seniors  prepared  for  the  Society 
for  the  Promotion  of  Engineering  Education  (see  p.  153)  ;  personnel 
aids  (series  of  1918).  The  following  articles  on  tests  have  been 
published  in  psychological  journals: 

Mental  tests  for  prospective  telegraphers,  a  study  of  the  diagnostic  value  of 
mental  tests  for  predicting  ability  to  learn  telegraphy,  by  L.  L.  Thurstone. 
(Jour.  App.  PsychoL,  v.  3,  No.  2,  June,  1919,  p.  110-117.) 

A  standardized  test  for  office  clerks,  by  L.  L.  Thurstone.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol., 
v.  3,  No.  3,  Sept.,  1919.  p.  248-251.) 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO. 

Chicago,  111. 

SCHOOL  OF  COMMERCE  AND  ADMINISTRATION. — L.  C.  Marshall,  dean. 
In  addition  to  courses  of  a  more  general  character,  the  program  or 
work  in  preparation  for  personnel  administration  includes  the  fol- 
lowing dealing  specifically  with  personnel  problems : 

Political  economy  43 :  The  business  manager's  administration  of 
labor  (Asst.  Prof.  Paul  II.  Douglas),  dealing  with  (1)  the  factors 
making  for  ineffective  work,  such  as  labor  turnover,  absenteeism, 
withheld  effort,  personal  incapacities  of  health  and  training,  dis- 
harmonies of  relationship  between  management  and  the  workers;  (2) 
methods  of  securing  effective  effort,  such  as  the  proper  administration 
of  the  labor  supply  and  the  selection  of  workers,  promotion,  demo- 
tion, transfer,  and  discharge,  regularizatkm  of  employment,  education 
and  training,  safety  and  health,  welfare  work,  hours  of  labor,  wages 
and  rewards,  joint  relations  with  employees,  whether  through  shop 
committees,  unions,  or  industrial  councils;  (3)  the  organization  and 
functions  of  a  personnel  department  and  its  place  in  a  business 
organization.  Investigations  are  assigned  on  special  topics  and  the 
student  is  expected  to  do  field  work  upon  some  phase  of  employment 
problems. 

Political  economy  44:  The  education  and  training  of  the  worker; 
a  study  of  the  various  kinds  of  ability  needed  in  modern  industry 
and  a  consideration  of  the  training  agencies  set  up  (1)  outside  the 
industrial  establishment,  such  as  trade  schools,  supplementary  train- 
ing courses,  cooperative  schools  and  continuation  schools;  (2)  inside 
the  establishment,  such  as  the  training  department,  vestibule 
schools,  apprentice  schools,  "  f ormanizing "  classes,  etc.  Provision 
will  be  made  for  those  who  wish  definite  training  in  trade  teaching  by 
means  of  supervised  field  work,  etc. 

An  article  by  Dean  Marshall  on  "  Incentive  and  output :  a  statement 
of  the  place  of  the  personnel  manager  in  modern  industry  "  appeared 
in  Journal  of  Political  Economy  (v.  28,  No.  9,  November,  1920,  p. 
713-734).  A  guide  and  bibliography  for  labor  managers,  by  Prof. 
L.  S.  Lyon,  was  published  in  Industrial  Management  for  November, 
1920.  Prof.  Douglas  published  in  1921  a  monograph  on  "American 
apprenticeship  and  industrial  education"  (348  p.),  in  Columbia 
University,  Studies  in  history,  economics,  and  public  law  (v.  95, 


UNIVERSITIES  AND    COLLEGES.  173 

No.  2;  whole  No.  216) ;  and  an  article  on  "  Shop  committees:  a  sub- 
stitute for  or  supplement  to  trade-unions"  (Jour.  Pol.  Econ.,  Feb., 
1921,  p.  89-107).  He  has  in  preparation  a  study  of  "  The  relationship 
between  turnover  and  absenteeism." 

OTHO  S.  A.  SPRAGUE  MEMORIAL  INSTITUTE. 

University  of  Chicago,  Chicago,  111.  H.  Gideon  Wells,  M.  D., 
director  of  medical  research. 

Organized  January,  1911,  under  a  bequest  from  Otho  S.  A.  Sprague 
for  the  purpose  of  the  relief  of  human  suffering  (present  fund, 
$1,500,000;  annually  available,  $80,000)  and  incorporated  under  the 
laws  of  the  JState  of  Illinois;  affiliated  with  the  Medical  School  of  the 
University  of  Chicago  by  vote  of  its  trustees  on  November  17,  1916. 

The  chief  emphasis  of  the  work  of  the  institute  has  been  upon  the 
chemical  side  of  medical  problems  (e.  g.,  in  the  study  of  tuberculosis, 
diabetes,  etc.),  children's  diseases,  and  the  influence  of  heredity  on 
cancer.  While  at  the  present  time  it  is  doing  no  work  in  industrial 
diseases,  in  the  past  it  has  supported  a  few  special  investigations  in 
this  field,  viz.,  by  Dr.  Peter  Bassoe  on  "  The  late  manifestations  of 
compressed-air  disease"  (American  Journal  Medical  Science,  April, 
1913)  ;  by  Dr.  Emery  R.  Hayhurst  on  "Occupational  brass  poison- 
ing" (American  Journal  Medical  Science,  May,  1913),  "A  study  of 
lead  poisoning  in  painters"  (American  Journal  Medical  Science, 
June,  1914) .  and  "  The  prevalence  of  occupational  features  in  disease  " 
(Journal  American  Medical  Association,  December  12,  1914). 

During  the  war  several  problems  concerning  the  toxicity  of  various 
explosives  or  chemicals  used  in  munitions  plants  were  referred  to  the 
institute  for  investigation.  The  sudden  cessation  of  munitions  work 
terminated  these  investigations,  most  of  them  while  incomplete.  A 
synopsis  of  some  of  the  results  was  published  in  the  Journal  of  Indus- 
trial Hygiene  (v.  2.  No.  7,  November.  1920,  p.  247-252), 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO  SETTLEMENT. 

4630  Gross  Avenue,  Chicago,  111.     Miss  Mary  McDowell,  head 

resident. 

In  1910-1912  a  survey  of  the  stockyards  district  was  undertaken  by 
the  Board  of  the  University  of  Chicago  Settlement  (John  C.  Ken- 
nedy, in  charge)  to  secure  accurate  and  detailed  information  regard- 
ing the  living  and  working  conditions  of  the  people  in  that  neigh- 
borhood. The  results  of  these  investigations  were  published  in  three 
parts  entitled: 

A  study  of  Ohiojigo's  stockyards  community:  (1)  Opportunities  in  school  and 
industry  'for  children  of  the  stockyards  district.  By  Ernest  L.  Talbert.  1912. 
G4  p.  (2)  The  American  girl  in  the  stockyards  district.  By  Louise  Montgomery. 
1913.  70  p.  (3)  Wages  and  family  budgets  in  the  Chicago  stockyards  district, 
with  wage  statistics  from  other  industries  employing  unskilled  labor.  By  J.  C. 
Kennedy  and  others.  1914.  80  p. 

A  study  of  night-working  mothers  in  the  packing  houses,  who  had 
children  under  school  age,  has  recently  been  made  at  the  settlement, 
under  the  supervision  of  the  head  resident,  by  Miss  Annie  Konticke. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CINCINNATI. 

Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

COLLEGE  OF  ENGINEERING  AND  COMMERCE. — Herman  Schneider, 
dean.  This  college  operates  on  what  is  known  as  the  cooperative 


174  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

system.  Under  this  plan  the  practice  of  engineering  is  taught  in  a 
shop  or  on  a  railroad  under  actual  commercial  conditions,  and  the 
science  underlying  the  practice  is  taught  in  the  university.  The  stu- 
dents are  divided  into  two  sections,  which  alternate  every  two  weeks, 
i.  e.,  during  each  biweekly  period  one-half  of  the  students  are  at  the 
university  and  one-half  are  in  the  factories,  and  at  the  end  of  the 
period  the  sections  are  interchanged.  The  students  are  paid  for  their 
work  in  the  shops  at  the  same  rate  as  other  employees.  The  coopera- 
tive course  is  of  five  years'  duration,  eleven  months  in  the  year.  For 
the  year  1920-21  there  was  an  enrollment  of  950  students,  and  the 
number  of  cooperating  firms  is  now  150,  covering  a  great  variety  of 
industries  not  only  in  Cincinnati  but  also  in  other  cities  in  Ohio  and 
Indiana.  An  account  of  the  evolution  of  the  plan  since  its  inception 
in  1906  and  a  description  of  the  courses  of  instruction  in  chemical, 
civil,  electrical,  mechanical,  and  metallurgical  engineering  and  in 
commerce  for  1921-22  are  published  as  University  of  Cincinnati 
Eecord,  January,  1921  (ser.  1,  v.  17,  No.  1). 

^  Direct  correlation  of  the  work  of  the  shop  with  the  instruction 
given  in  the  university  is  made  by  the  department  of  coordination, 
which  studies  each  cooperating  firm,  devises  organization  charts 
showing  the  various  kinds  of  work  which  a  student  can  most  p 
ably  follow  and  keeps  a  graphical  record  for  every  student,  which 
shows  the  various  kinds  of  work  he  has  done  during  the  five  years 
of  his  course. 

The  selection  of  men  for  the  work  for  which  they  are  to  be  trained 
being  of  special  importance  under  this  system,  nearly  all  of  the  tests 
proposed  for  this  purpose  have  been  tried  and  the  results  have  been 
largely  negative.  In  a  paper  entitled  "  Selecting  men  for  jobs"  (re- 
printed from  the  Engineering  Magazine,  New  York,  June,  1916) 
Dean  Schneider  has  discussed  the  methods  tried  and  discarded  and 
outlined  the  plan  adopted,  which  is  based  on  the  study  of  the  apti- 
tude for  different  jobs  of  about  1,000  men  who  came  under  close  ob- 
servation in  10  years. 

CLARK  UNIVERSITY. 

Worcester,  Mass. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — A  report  on  work  done  in  this 
department  in  testing  the  intelligence  of  office  and  shop  workers, 
using  Otis  group  intelligence  scale,  Forms  A  and  B,  and  Otis  general 
intelligence  examination,  was  made  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Psychological  Association  in  December,  1920,  by  Dean 
James  P.  Porter,  and  a  brief  summary  of  some  of  the  results  was  pub- 
lished in  its  proceedings  (Psychol.  Bull.,  v.  18,  No.  2,  February, 
1921).  An  attempt  is  to  be  made  to  ascertain  the  relation  between 
scores  obtained  by  various  kinds  of  tests  and  to  work  out  correlations 
between  intelligence  scores  and  (1)  tenure  of  service,  (2)  scores  in 
mechanical  skill  and  trade  tests,  (3)  measures  of  honesty,  reliability, 
loj^alty  and  possibly  some  other  moral  traits,  and  also  the  by- 
products of  tests  in  *  industry.  Dr.  Porter  spent  the  summer  vaca- 
tions of  1919  and  1920  AS  an  unskilled  laborer  and  as  an  office  em- 
ployee in  a  shipyard  and  a  loom  works  to  come  into  first-hand  con- 
tact with  personnel  problems.  A  brief  account  of  his  observations  is 
given  in  Industry,  a  bulletin  issued  by  the  Associated  Industries  of 
Massachusetts,  for  November  20,  1920, 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES,  175 

A  psychological  practicum  on  mental  and  physical  tests  arid  the 
application  of  general  intelligence  scales  (one  hour  a  week)  and  a 
course  on  systematic  applied  psychology  dealing,  among  other  topics, 
with  personnel  analysis  and  the  human  element  in  business  and 
industry  (two  hours  a  week)  are  given  in  this  department  by  Dr. 
Iv.  R.  Geissler. 

The  Journal  of  Applied  Psychology  is  published  quarterly  by 
Florence  Chandler,  Clark  University. 

CLEVELAND  SCHOOL  OF  EDUCATION. 

Cleveland,  Ohio. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — Garry  C.  Myers,  head  of  depart- 
ment. The  "  Myers  mental  measure,  by  Caroline  E.  Myers  and 
Garry  C.  Myers,  a  group  intelligence  test  consisting  wholly  of  pic- 
tures (published  by  The  Sentinel,  Carlisle,  Pa.)  which  has  been  used 
in  several  school  surveys,  has  been  adapted  by  the  authors  to  unskilled 
workmen,  especially  those  of  foreign  speech. 

A  study  of  "  Problems  in  skill  "  reported  before  Ohio  Academy  of 
Sciences.  March  26,  1921.  is  still  in  progress. 

COLORADO  STATE  TEACHERS'  COLLEGE. 

Greeley,  Colo. 

DEPART  MKNT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — J.  D.  Heilman,  in  charge.  A  series 
of  tests  intended  to  determine  a  person's  capacity  to  learn  type- 
writing lias  been  developed  recently  in  this  department. 

COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY. 

Broadway  and  One  hundred  and  sixteenth  Street,  New  York, 
X.  Y.  * 

DEPARTMENT  OF  KXTF.XSION  TEACHING. — Four  courses  on  personnel 
administration  were  given  in  this  department  in  1920-21  by  Mr.  I/. 
Outhwaite:  Business  <?31-32,  Principles  of  personnel  management, 
Tuesday  afternoons,  forming  part  of  the  general  training  in  business 
management  for  students  in  the  School  of  Business;  Business  #161- 
162,  Personnel  management,  a  general  course,  Tuesday  evenings,  in- 
tended primarily  for  graduates  and  persons  in  executive  and  per- 
sonnel work  in  industry,  dealing  with  personnel  technique  in  the 
winter  session  and  with  problems  connected  with  industrial  relations 
and  labor  maintenance  in  the  spring  session;  Business  <?163,  Per- 
sonnel methods  for  office  executives,  Monday  evenings,  winter  ses- 
sion; Business  <?164,  Personnel  methods  for  institutions,  Monday 
afternoons,  spring  session.  A  course  on  vocational  and  industrial 
psychology  is  given  by  Profs.  H.  L.  Hollingworth  and  A.  T.  Poffen- 
berger  in  the  winter  session  (Psychology  el45#)  and  repeated  in 
the  spring  session  (Psychology  elifta).  In  connection  with  this,  spe- 
cial conferences  are  arranged  for  students  with  practical  and  research 
problems.  Details  of  these  courses  are  given  in  a  special  circular, 
"  Courses  in  personnel  management "  issued  by  the  department. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — H,  L.  Hollingworth,  professor. 
The  following  is  a  list  of  the  published  reports  of  work  done  in  the 
field  of  personnel  research  in  this  department: 

Hollingworth,  H.  L.  Vocational  psychology.  New  York,  D.  Appleton,  1916. 
308  p. 

Hollingworth,  H.  L.,  and  Poffenberger,  A.  T.  Applied  psychology.  New  York, 
D,  Appleton,  1920,  389  p,  (1st  ed,,  1917.) 


176  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

Hollingworth,  H.  L.  Selection  of  salesmen.  (Salesmanship  Magazine,  Dec., 
1916.) 

Rogers,  H.  W.  Psychological  tests  for  stenographers  and  typewriters.  (Jour. 
App.  PsychoL,  v.  1,  No.  3,  Sept.,  1917,  p.  268-274.) 

Oschrin,  Elsie.  Vocational  tests  for  retail  saleswomen.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol., 
v.  2,  No.  2,  .June,  1918,  p.  148-155.) 

Marcus,  Lawrence.  Vocational  selection  for  specialized  tasks:  a  study  of 
selective  tests  for  Hollerith-machine  operatives.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  v.  4, 
Nos.  2-3,  June-Sept.,  1920,  p.  186-201.) 

Rogers,  H.  W.  Empirical  tests  in  vocational  selection.  (Abstract  in  Psychol. 
Bull.,  Feb.,  1921,  p.  95 ;  forthcoming  volume  of  Archives  of  Psychology. ) 

Bregman,  E.  O.  Psychological  tests  in  employment.  (Forthcoming  article  in 
Jour.  App.  Psychol.) 

Two  unpublished  master's  essays,  "  Vocational  selection  of  factory 
workers"  (Lenora  Allen)  and  "Selection  of  telephone  operators" 
(Nead)  are  on  file  in  the  Columbia  University  Library. 

COLLEGE  OF  PHYSICIANS  AND  SURGEONS. 

437  West  Fifty-ninth  Street,  New  York. 

DEPARTMENT  or  PHYSIOLOGY. — Frederic  S.  Lee,  professor  of  physi- 
ology. This  department  carries  on  research  in  industrial  physiology, 
particularly  in  conjunction  with  United  States  Public  Health  Ser- 
vice, to  which  Prof.  Lee  is  consulting  physiologist.  The  following 
papers  have  been  published : 

Lee,  Frederic  S.  Is  the  eight-hour  working  day  rational?  (Science,  N.  S., 
v.  44,  p.  727-735,  Nov.,  1916.) 

The  human  machine  and  industrial  efficiency.     New  York,  Longman, 

Green  &  Co.,  1918.     vii,  119  p. 

The  human  machine  in  industry.  (Columbia  University  Quarterly, 
v.  20,  No.  1,  Jan.,  1918.) 

Industrial  efficiency :  The  bearings  of  physiological  science  thereon ; 
a  review  of  recent  work.  (Reprint  T$o.  448  from  U.  S.  Public  Health  Reports, 
v.  33,  No.  2,  Jan.  11,  1918,  p.  29-35.) 

The   new    science  of   industrial   physiology.     (Reprint   No.   513    from 

U.  S.  Public  Health  Reports,  v.  34,  No.  15,  Apr.  11,  1919,  p.  723-728.) 

Scott,  Ernest  L.  The  present  status  of  our  knowledge  of  fatigue  products. 
(Reprint  No.  465  from  U.  S.  Public  Health  Reports,  v.  33,  No.  17,  Apr.  26, 
1918,  p.  605-611.) 

Hastings,  A.  B.  An  investigation  of  changes  in  the  blood  and  urine  result- 
ing from  fatigue.  (U.  S.  Public  Health  Reports,  1919,  v.  34,  p.  1682.) 

Scott,  E.  L.,  and  Hastings,  A.  B.  Some  phases  of  protein  catabolism  and 
fatigue.  (U.  S.  Public  Health  Reports,  1920,  v.  35,  p.  2445.) 

An  investigation  on  "  Physiology  of  fatigue :  physico-chemical 
manifestations  of  fatigue  in  the  blood,"  by  A.  B.  Hastings,  has  been 
completed  but  the  results  have  not  yet  been  published. 

During  the  war,  Prof.  Lee  was  executive  secretary  of  the  divisional 
committee  on  industrial  fatigue,  section  of  sanitation,  National  Com- 
mittee on  Welfare  Work,  under  the  Council  of  National  Defense  and 
prepared  its  preliminary  report  on  "  Industrial  fatigue "  issued  by 
the  council  as  Welfare  Work  Series,  No.  1,  January,  1918,  and  also  by 
United  States  Public  Health  Service  under  title  "How  industrial 
fatigue  may  be  reduced"  as  its  Reprint  No.  482.  He  was  also  in 
charge  of  the  investigation  comparing  an  8-hour  plant  and  a  10- 
hour  plant  in  the  metal-working  industry,  reported  in  Public  Health 
Bulletin  No.  106. 

Researches  as  to  the  physiological  effects  of  air  conditions  were  also 
made  by  Prof.  Lee  for  the  New  York  State  Commission  on  Ventila- 
tion (see  p,  54),  of  which  he  is  a  member, 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  177 

TEACHERS'  COLLEGE. 

Columbia  University,  New  York,  1ST.  Y. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — E.  L.  Thorndike,  professor  of  psy- 
chology. This  department  has  developed  the  Thorndike  intelligence 
examinations  for  high-school  graduates,  suitable  for  use  in  the  selec- 
tion of  men  for  high-grade  positions,  in  which  intelligent  planning 
is  required.  Sets  of  the  current  and  back  issues  of  these  examina- 
tions may  be  ordered  from  the  Bureau  of  Publications,  Teachers' 
College. 

It  began  also  the  work  on  the  Stenquist  tests  of  mechanical  skill 
and  mechanical  intelligence,  which  are  now  being  developed  in  the 
Bureau  of  Reference  and  Research  of  the  New  York  City  schools 
(see  p.  65)  by  Mr.  J.  L.  Stenquist. 

Prof.  Thorndike,  in  1914,  prepared  for  the  Metropolitan  Life  In- 
surance Co.  an  entrance  examination  for  general  clerical  workers, 
which  has  been  in  force  in  that  company  to  the  present  time.  He 
also  prepared  tests  in  connection  with  the  study  of  engineering  edu- 
cation by  the  Carnegie  Foundation  for  the  Advancement  of  Teach- 
ing. (See  p.  93.) 

Psychological  researches  on  "Ventilation  in  relation  of  mental 
work,"  published  in  1916  as  Teachers'  College  Contributions  to  Edu- 
cation No.  78,  were  carried  out  in  connection  with  the  New  York 
State  Commission  on  Ventilation  (see  p.  54),  of  which  Prof.  Thorn- 
dike  is  a  member. 

Studies  have  also  be^n  made,  especially  by  F.  H.  Knight  and  R. 
Franzen,  of  the  qualities  associated  with  success  in  the  teaching  pro- 
fession in  the  elementary  schools  and  also  in  high  schools. 

INSTITUTE  FOR  EDUCATIONAL  RESEARCH. — Established  at  Teachers' 
College  early  in  1921,  this  institute  is  to  consist  of  three  divisions: 
Psychology,  School  experimentations,  Field  studies.  The  Division 
of 'Psychology  will,  during  1921  and  1922,  study  methods  for  deter- 
mining an  individual's  promise  for  general  office  work,  for  trade  and 
factory  work,  and  for  advanced  study,  with  the  hope  of  providing 
instruments  whereby  schools,  vocational  bureaus,  and  employers  may 
guide  the  early  careers  of  young  persons  from  15  to  18  years  of  age. 

DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE. 
Hanover,  N.  H. 

AMOS  TUCK  SCHOOL  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND  FINANCE. — W.  R. 
Gray,  dean.  A  course  on  personnel  management  (three  hours)  is 
given  by  Prof.  Malcolm  Keir  in  the  second  semester  of  the  second 
year.  As  part  of  the  reo^iirements  for  the  degree  of  master  of  com- 
mercial science,  students  are  required  to  make  investigations  and 
present  a  thesis  in  the  field  of  business  for  which  they  are  preparing. 
The  thesis  investigations  on  personnel  management  subjects  under- 
taken during  the  academic  year  1920-21  were :  Need  for  personnel 
work  in  a  meter  manufacturing  company,  by  T.  W.  Bradley ;  Wel- 
fare work  in  a  paper  manufacturing  plant,  by  W.  C.  Hulbert;  Wel- 
fare work  in  a  corporation  town,  by  F.  T.  Marden ;  Personnel  work 
of  a  department  store,  by  R.  J.  Miner. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — A  test  is  given  by  this  department 
to  each  freshman  class  shortly  after  the  opening  of  the  fall  term.  It 
has  no  connection  with  admission  but  is  an  attempt  to  secure  a  picture 

70723°—  Bull.  299—21 12 


178  HI.    XOJSOI'FICIAL   AGENCIES. 

of  cadi  student's  mental  equipment.  The  test  is  divided  into  several 
parts,  used  to  determine  the  student's  aptitude  for  various  subjects 
which  he  might  pursue  while  in  college.  At  the  end  of  each  year 
instructors  are  requested  to  make  estimates  of  their  students  on  the 
traits  of  intelligence,  forcefulness,  reliability,  and  personality,  each 
of  these  points  being  carefully  defined  as  a'  guide  to  the  instructor. 
Associate  Dean  R.  W.  Husband  receives  the  detailed  data  of  both 
kinds  for  interpretation  to  the  students  and  as  an  aid  in  guiding  them 
toward  appropriate  occupations.  In  determining  occupational  apti- 
tudes the  individual's  physical  examination,  financial  and  social 
status,  personal  experience  (especially  in  the  way  of  summer  jobs), 
interest  in  student  activities,  and  intellectual  interests  are  also  taken 
into  account. 

GEORGE  PEABODY  COLLEGE  FOR  TEACHERS. 

Nashville,  Term. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL,  LABORATORY. — Joseph  Peterson,  professor  of  psy- 
chology. The  following  studies  published  from  this  laboratory  may 
have  relations  to  industrial  psychology,  inasmuch  as  they  develop  a 
kind  of  test  that  may  be  useful  for  the  detection  of  special  sorts  of 
abilities  as  well  as  of  general  intelligence : 

Experiments  in  rational  learning,  by  Joseph  Peterson  (Psvchol.  Rev.,  1918, 
v.  25,  p.  443-469). 

Tentative  norms  in  the  rational  learning  test,  by  Joseph  Peterson  (Jour. 
Applied  Psychol.,  1920,  v.  4,  p.  250-257). 

The  rational  learning  test  applied  to  81  college  students,  by  Joseph  Peterson 
(Jour.  Educ.  Psychol.,  1920.  v.  11?  p.  187-150). 

The  backward  elimination  of  errors  in  mental  maze  learning,  by  Joseph  Peter- 
son (Jour.  Exper.  Psychol.,  1920,  v.  3,  p.  257-280). 

A  tentative  standardization  of  the  hard  opposites  test,  by  Mrs. 
Marie  Hackl  Means,  is  soon  to  appear  from  the  press  as  a  Psycho- 
logical Monograph. 

A  study  on  the  best  method  of  scoring  the  Pressey  cross-out  tests, 
schedule  E,  will  soon  be  ready  for  publication.  Tests  have  been 
made  on  about  2,000  white  and  Negro  children  to  determine  race  dif- 
ferences; the  results  when  completed  will  have  a  bearing  on  the  in- 
dustrial life  of  the  Negro  in  some  respects. 

HARVARD  UNIVERSITY. 

Cambridge,  Mass. 

BUREAU  OF  VOCATIONAL  GUIDANCE.  Lawrence  Hall,  Kirkland 
Street.  John  M.  Brewer,  director.  This  bureau  is  a  department  of 
the  Graduate  School  of  Education.  Formerly  the  Vocation  Bureau 
of  Boston,  it  was  transferred  to  Harvard  University  in  1917. 

During  the  war  the  facilities  of  the  bureau  were  largely  given 
over  to  emergency  courses  in  employment  management,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Ordnance  Department  of  the  United  States  Army, 
and  to  the  preparation  of  studies  on  occupational  opportunities  for 
physically  handicapped  men.  During  1919-1920  the  bureau  co- 
operated with  the  Associated  Industries  of  Massachusetts  (see  p.  84) 
and  Ludlow  Manufacturing  Associates27  in  the  preparation  of  text- 
book materials  for  Americanization  in  the  paper  industry,  the  leather 
industry,  and  the  jute  industry.  It  also  inaugurated  discussion 

x  Paull,  Charles  H.  English  lessons  for  the  Juto  industry,  including  community  activi- 
ties. 1919. 


UNIVERSITIES.  AND   COLLEGES.  179 

classes  for  foremen  in  factories  and  consultation  work  on  foremen 
training,  but  these  activities  have  since  been  abandoned. 

The  present  services  and  activities  of  the  bureau  include  corre- 

spondence arid  conferences  on  matters  relating  to  vocational  guid- 

ance, definite  help  for  specific  schools  and  school  systems  in  intro- 

ducing classes  in  occupations,  university  courses  in  vocational  guid- 

and  vocational  education,  and  promotion  of  organizations  for 

.  ^tension  of  vocational  guidance.     The  following  vocational  and 

•snnel  studies  have  been  published: 


i.   Krc.UMK-k  J.     Tlie  shor  industry.      (  Uev.  fit.)      Now  York,  Henrv  Holt 
I  !os   U»lil. 

Aciverrisinu-  as  a   vovuti"«v.     Now  York.     JMacmillan  Co.,  101  H. 
—  -     A  guide  t<>  the  .study  olr  occupations.     Cambridge.     Harvard  University 
I'resx,  19L'l. 

l'n'\vor,    .lolni    M.     The   vocational-guidance    movement.      NV\v   York.     Mao- 
iniilsii!    Co.,    1!»1S. 

I»i  ewer,  John  M..  and  Kelly,  Hoy  W.     A  selected  critical  bibliography  o 
i-jilioiml  gn;«l:ii);-«'.     <1;ui»brMlge.     Uurvunl  rr.iv.'i-sity,  11)1.7. 

Keliy,    Uoy    \V.      Hiring    the    worker.      New    York.      Industrial    Management 
Library,    n.ns. 

Training  indusrrial.  workers.     New   York.     Ronald   Pies;-;,  1920. 
My,   Uoy  \V..  and  Allen.   Frederick  J.     The  shipbuilding  industry.     Boston. 
Jiton   Mifllin  Co.,  1(.H8. 

aoiit.     T.  S.  S 


Tin  op  biiii..-i  -!ng  the  i  nities  for  industrial 

cripples  and  disabled  soldiers  and  sailors,  which  were  prepared  by 
this  bureau.  l'-;;\v  been  published  by  the  Keil  Cross  Institute  for 
Crippled  and  Disabled  Men,  New  York.  (See  p.  109.)  They  cover 
.'litlmig,  shoe,  ri!bberr  optical  goods,  and  brush  indus- 
1 

The  bureau  oil'ers  a   research  course  in  vocational  education  and 
vocatiotj-'u  guidance:  and,  ii  ->nd  half-year,  courses  on  educa- 

•ionul    gttidaiice    in    the    occupa- 
tions (IvJ). 

(i\:  iSTRXTioN.  —  W.  B.  Dojiham, 

i.     Tlie  study  group   in   industru'-!   inanageuient  begins   with  a 

>a!  intiMxhictory  course  (first  yeav?  first  half),  part  of  which  is 

k«d  to  management  problems  'arising  from  personal  or  human 

relations.    This  is  followed  im  the  second  half  of  the  first  year  by  a 

tfi  labor  technique  which  primarily  covers  the  functions  and 

•ig  technique  oV  ornployineiit  management  arid  its  eoordina.- 

1  1  'other  depiirtme-nt  business,  particularly  with  the, 

utive.     It  deals  with  the  technical  and  administrative 

problem!  -  out  of  the  relation  of  employer  and  employee  in 

industry,  such  :is  selection  and  placement  of  the*  workman,  w.ige  set- 

ting, adjustment  and  follow-up,  training  and  education,  safety,  sani- 

tation and  health,  housing  and  transportation,  benefit  associations. 

In  the  second  year  a  course  on  labor  problems  is  given,  in  which 

point   of   view  taken  is  that  of  the  executive  responsible   for 

labor  policies  and  the  work  consists  largely  of  research  by  the  indi- 

vidual student  on  selected  problems  approved  by  the  instructor  where 

data   may  be   obtained  in   the  field.'     During    the    academic    year 

21  'four  studies  on  labor  turnover  were  made  for  graduate 

theses. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL  LABORATORY.  —  Herbert  S.  Langfeld,  director.    The 
work  of  the  lute   Prof.   Miinsterberg  in  vocational  psychology  is, 


180  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

covered  by  his  own  treatise  and  an  article  containing  additional  re- 
sults of  his  researches  edited  and  published  after  his  death,  viz : 

Minister] >ei'£,  Jlujro.  Psychology  ami  industrial  efficiency.  Boston,  Hoiighton, 
Midlin  &  Co.,  1913.  ;?21  p. 

Burn.  Harold  K.  Prof.  Mttnsterberg*J8  vocational  tests,  (.lour.  App.  Psy- 
cijol..  v.  1,  No.  3,  Sept.,  1917,  p.  201-213.) 

At  the  present  time  a  research  to  devise  tests  for  the  selection  of  the 
clerical  force  is  being  conducted  at  a  manufacturing  establishment, 
by  II.  L.  Harley.  In  the  laboratory  the  following  work  is  in  prog- 
ress: Experiments  on  the  social  factors  in  industrial  work,  by  I.  C. 
Whittemore;  methods  of  testing  personality,  by  Gordon  Allport;  a 
problem  of  the  selection  of  telegraphers,  by  Crawford  Goldthwaite; 
a  series  of  tests  upon  monotony  and  fatigue  in  industrial  work,  by 
II.  L.  Harley. 

HARVARD  MEDICAL  SCHOOL. 

240  Longwood  Avenue,  Boston,  Mass.  David  L.  Edsall,  M.  D., 
dean. 

DIVISION  OF  INDUSTRIAL  HYGIENE. — In  1918  Harvard  University 
received  funds  with  which  to  establish  facilities  for  the  training  of 
industrial  medical  personnel  and  for  laboratory,  clinical,  and  field 
research  in  matters  relating  to  the  health  of  industrial  workers.  The 
funds  were  largely  contributed  by  New  England  manufacturing  es- 
tablishments and  interested  individuals.  They  are  under  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  Governing  Committee  on  Industrial  Hygiene 
(Wade  Wright,  M.  D.,  secretary). 

The  courses  offered  in  1921-22  include  applied  physiology,  in- 
dustrial toxicology,  industrial  operation,  nutrition,  industrial  psy- 
chiatry, health  administration,  legal  aspects  of  industrial  medical 
practice,  and  methods  of  air  analysis,  given  at  Harvard  Medical 
School;  industrial  surgery  and  rontgenology,  given  at  Boston  City 
Hospital;  vital  statistics  and  industrial  sanitation,  given  at  the 
School  of  Engineering,  Harvard  University  (except  the  ventilation 
portion  of  the  latter  course  which  is  given  at  Harvard  Medical 
School)  ;  industrial  medicine,  given  at  the  Industrial  Clinic,  Massa- 
chusetts General  Hospital  (see  p.  117)  and  the  office  of  the  Harvard 
Mercantile  Health  Work  (v.  infra).  They  lead  to  the  certificate  in 
public  health  in  industrial  hygiene  (C.  P.  H.)  of  the  School  of 
Public  Health  of  Harvard  University  and  the  Massachusetts  Insti- 
tute of  Technology  and  to  the  doctorate  in  public  health  in  industrial 
hygiene  (Dr.  P.  H.)  or  the  Ph.  D.  in  hygiene,  conferred  by  Harvard 
University.  Detailed  description  of  the  courses,  requirements  for 
admission,  etc.,  are  given  in  a  catalogue  obtainable  from  the  registrar 
of  the  division. 

The  laboratory  research  work  conducted  by  the  division  includes 
special  investigations  in  industrial  poisoning  (viz,  by  manganese, 
lead,  ether,  tetrachlorethane,  and  trinitrotoluene),  effects  of  mineral 
dusts  and  development  of  new  apparatus  for  dust  measurement  in 
the  atmosphere,  etc. 

The  occurrence,  course,  and  prevention  of  chronic  manganese 
poisoning  were  described  by  Drs.  D.  L.  Edsall,  F.  P.  Wilbur,  and 
C.  K.  Drinker  in  the  Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene  (v.  1,  No.  4, 
August,  1919)  ;  experimental  studies  on  manganese  were  published 
by  C.  K.  Rieman  and  Annie  S.  Minot  in  Journal  of  Biological 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  181 

• 

Chemistry  (v.  42,  No.  2,  June,  1920,  and  v.  45,  No.  1,  December, 
1920) ,  and  by  C.  K.  Drinker,  L.  A.  Shaw,  and  C.  C.  Lund  in  Journal 
of  Experimental  Medicine  (v.  33,  Nos.  1  and  2,  January-February, 
J-i/^  J. ) . 

Dr.  Alice  Hamilton  has  published  in  the  Journal  of  Industrial 
Hygiene  a  series  of  articles  on  industrial  poisoning,  viz :  By  lead  (v. 
1,  No.  1,  May,  1919),  inorganic  poisons  other  than  lead  (v.  1,  No.  2, 
June,  1919),  compounds  of  the  aromatic  series  (v.  1,  No.  4,  August, 
1919),  ether  in  the  manufacture  of  smokeless  powder  (v.  2,  No.  2, 
June,  1920),  trinitrotoluene  (v.  3,  No.  3,  July,  1921)  ;  and  a  discus- 
sion of  the  etiology  of  so-called  anilin  tumors  of  the  bladder  (v.  3, 
No.  1,  May,  1921).  Other  contributions  in  this  field  by  Dr.  Hamil- 
ton have  been  published  by  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Labor  Sta- 
tistics (see  p.  20). 

Other  papers  on  industrial  poisoning  from  the  division,  published 
in  the  Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene,  are :  A  study  of  50  workers  in 
trinitrotoluene,  by  T.  J.  Putnam  and  W.  Herman  (v.  1,  No.  5,  Sep- 
tember, 1919) ;  Blood  examinations  of  trinitrotoluene  workers,  by 
G.  K.  Minot  (v.  1,  No.  6,  October,  1919) ;  Tetrachlore thane  poisoning 
and  its  prevention,  by  D.  C.  Parmenter  (v.  2,  No.  12,  April,  1921) ; 
A  survey  of  carbon  monoxide  poisoning  in  American  steel  works, 
metal  mines,  and  coal  mines,  by  H.  S.  Forbes  (v.  3,  No.  1,  May,  1921). 

Two  papers  on  the  phagocytosis  of  solid  particles  (quartz  and 
carbon)  by  A\T.  O.  Fenn  appeared  in  the  Journal  of  General  Physi- 
ology (v.  3,  No.  4,  March  20,  1921)  and  a  third  on  the  same  subject 
is  in  press.  The  results  of  the  study  of  the  question  "  Does  the  mag- 
netic field  constitute  an  industrial  hazard?"  by  C.  K.  Drinker  and 
R.  M.  Thomson,  are  published  in  the  Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene 
(v.  3,  No.  4,  August,  1921).  An  article  on  headache  as  an  occupa- 
tional complaint,  by  S.  Cobb  and  D.  C.  Parmenter,  appeared  in  the 
October,  1921,  issue  of  the  same  periodical. 

A  study  of  oil  folliculitis  has  been  made  in  the  bacteriological  labo- 
ratories bv  C.  G.  Page  and  L.  D.  Bushnell  (Jour.  Indust.  Hyg.,  v.  3, 
No.  2,  June,  1921,  p.  6275). 

In  December,  1919,  under  a  cooperative  arrangement  between  this 
division  and  a  group  of  25  merchants  (19  in  Boston,  6  in  other  cities), 
an  investigation  of  health  conditions  and  the  problems  of  health  con- 
servation in  stores  was  begun.  It  is  known  as  the  HARVARD  MERCAN- 
TILE HEALTH  WORK  (Arthur  B.  Emmons, 2d,  M.  D.,  director;  office  at 
3  Joy  Street,  Boston,  Mass.).  Three  reports  by  the  director  have 
been  published  to  date  in  the  Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene  under 
the  title  of  "Health  in  mercantile  establishments":  I.  The  general 
principles  of  store  medical  service  (v.  2,  No.  7,  November,  1920)  ;  II. 
Medical  records  (v.  2,  No.  8,  December,  1920)  ;  III.  Common  sanitary 
defects  in  stores  (v.  3,  No.  1,  May,  1921).  A  paper  on  "A  work 
chair,"  by  A.  B.  Emmons  and  J.  E.  Goldthwait,  arising  out  of  this 
investigation,  was  published  in  the  September,  1921,  number  of  the 
same  journal. 

A  printed  list  of  the  publications  of  the  staff  of  the  division,  indi- 
cating reprints  available  for  distribution,  may  be  obtained  from  the 
secretary.  It  includes,  in  addition  to  the  above,  a  number  of  articles 
dealing  with  industrial  clinics  and  the  study  of  occupational  diseases 
in  hospitals  and  various  other  general  topics  in  the  field  of  industrial 
hygiene. 


3.82  IH.    NONOFFICIAL   A(1KN<JU-;S. 


The  Journal  of  lidu&trM  ilyyiem^  under  an  international  board 
of  editors,  American  and  -British,  has  been  published  monthly  by  this 
division  since  May,  1919.  It  contains  both  original  contributions  in 
industrial  hygiene  and  abstracts  of  articles  scattered  through  vari- 
ous technical,  trade,  and  professional  journals. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS. 

(  rbana,  111. 

BUREAU  OF  EDUCATIONAL  RESEARCH.  —  B,  I\.  Buckingham,  director. 
Established  in  'July,  1918,  to  assist  in  the  investigation  of  educa- 
tional questions  throughout  the  State.  The  work  of  its  Division  of 
Educational  Tests  and  Measurements  (Walter  8.  Monroe,  assistant 
director,  in  charge)  includes  (1)  publication  and  purchase  of  test 
materials;  (2)  the  preparation  of  accessory  material  for  the  adminis- 
tration and  scoring  of  the  tests;  (3)  distribution  of  these  materials  to 
the  schools;  (1)  derivation  of  new  tests.  A  few  group  intelligence 
scales  are  included  within  the  scope  of  the  material  it  distributes. 
(See  Bulletin  No.  2,  its  first  annual  report,  p.  67-70.)  The  report  of 
this  division  for  1919-20  forms  Bulletin  No.  5.  It  is  expected  that  it 
will  be  necessary  in  the  near  future  to  set  up  a  division  of  intelligence 
tests  either  within  the  bureau  or  in  the  Department  of  Educational 
Psychology  or  by  some  cooperative  arrangement  between  the  two. 

"Mental  tests  for  school  use,"  by  Charles  E.  Holley  (91  p.),  pub- 
lished in  1920  as  Bulletin  No.  4,  contains  a  comparison  of  six  group 
scales,  viz  :  Otis  group  intelligence  scale,  Theisen-Fleming  classifica- 
tion test,  Whipple's  group  test  for  grammar  grades,  Pressey  primer 
scale,  Virginia  delta  I  (Haggerty),  and  Sentence  vocabulary  scale 


The  Journal  of  Educational  fteseotrch,  which  has  been  published 
for  the  bureau  since  January,  1920,  by  the  Public  School  Publishing 
Co.,  Bloomington,  111.,  contains  articles  on  intelligence  tests  and 
scales.  It  is  the  official  organ  of  the  National  Association  of  Direc- 
tors of  Educational  Research. 

INDIANA  UNIVERSITY. 

Bloomington,  Ind. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — Harry  D.  Kitspn,  professor  of 
psychology.  The  courses  in  this  department  relating  to  the  indus- 
trial applications  of  psychology  are  as  follows : 

Psychological  problems  of  employment  management  (41A),  deal- 
ing with  the  selection  of  employees,  measurement  of  their  efficu 
devising  just  methods  of  promotion,  making  conditions  favorable  for 
production,  etc.,  second  semester,  two  hours  a  week  (Dr.  Kitson). 

I  \ychologieal  methods  in  industry  (48),  a  graduate  course  giving 
particular  attention  to  the  measurement  of  the  productiveness  of  em- 
ployees, the  reduction  of  fatigue,  efficiency  methods,  etc.,  second 
semester,  three  hours  a  week  (Dr.  Kitson). 

Psychological  research  in  business  and  industrial  psychology,  em- 
ployment management,  personnel  (Dr.  Kitson). 

The  following  papers  dealing  with  subjects  in  this  field  have  been 
published  by  Dr.  Kitson : 

Psychological  tests  and  vocational  guidance.  (School  Rev.,  v.  24,  No.  3,  p. 
207-214,  Mar.,  1916.) 

Interest  as  a  criterion  in  vocational  guidance.  (Kduc,  l&ev.,  v.  52,  p.  349-856, 
Nov.,  1916.) 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES. 

,      n-Qi  nieaeureinents  of  college  students.     (School  and  Society,  v.  G, 

!'•  ou<—  oil,  r?<?pt.  lo,  Tyl  <  .  ) 

Comparison  between  two  scales  for  the  estimation  of  intelligence.     (Jour 
Api>.  I'sycliol.,  Dec.,  1919,  p.  310-31  G.) 

,   uB^irQ0^  gniao9('e  unCt  the  theoi>y  of  Probability.     (School  Rev.,  v.  28,  No.  2, 

Economic  implications  in  the  psychological  doctrine  of  interest      (Jour   Pol 
K<-.>n.,  v.  28,  No.  4,  p.  332-338,  Apr.,  1920.) 

How  to  make  employees  interested  in  their  jobs,      (Arner.  Machinist   v    52 

»-485,  May,  1920.) 

Intelligence  tests  for  college  students.     (Chicago  Schools  Jour,  v   3  D   167- 
170.  Feb..  1921.) 

Employment  managers  as  vocational  counselors.     (Indust  Mana0'     v    61    D 
Mar.  1, 


:  "iirific  method  in  job  analysis.     (Jour.  Pol.  Econ.,  v.  29,  No.  6,  p.  508-514 
.  1921.)     [An  investigation  of  certain  psychological  phases  of  proof  reading 
including  measnrements  of  eye  movements  of  good  and  poor  proofreaders.] 

Researches  in  progress  include:  The  measurements  of  the  output  of 
hand  compositors  as  affected  by  a  particular  form  of  bonus;  the  cor- 
relation between  turnover  and  age. 

Psychologic!  I  research  in  mental  and  social  measurements,  under 
Dr.  S.  L.  Pressey,  is  mainly  directed  to  public-school  uses.  Some  of 
the  tests  devised  may  also  be  useful  in  employment  psychology,  e.  g., 
Pressey  X-O  tests,  discussed  in  the  following  papers: 

Cross-out  tests,  with  sugg-  5  to  a  group  scale  of  the  emotions,  by  S.  L. 

id  I..  W.  Pressey.     (Jour.  Ai>p.  Ps.vc.UoL,  v.  3,  p.  138-150,  1919.) 

First  revisi-  .;  :mp  so>  <,<-signe<l  tor  investigating  the  emotions,  by 

S.   L.  and   O.    II.   Chambers.      (Jour.   App.   Psychol.,   v.   4,   p.  97-104 

Mar.,  1920.) 

SCHOOL  OF  EDUCATION.  —  Henry  Lester  Smith,  dean.     For  the  past 

H-\v>n  years  the  School  of  Education  has  held  annual  conferences  on 

ational  measurements  (proceedings  published  as  university  bul- 

let i  us).    It  maintains  a  Bureau  of  Cooperative  Research  in  this  field, 

the  purposes  of  which  are  (a)  research,  and  (b)  service,  by  making 

:-ible  educational  tests  considered  valuable  to  teachers. 
Dni'ARTMi  NT  (;!•'  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION.  —  Edwin  A.  Lee,  professor 
of  vocational  education.     This  department  offers,  as  a  part  of  its 


been  published  as  Indiana  University  Bulletin  (v.  18)  No.  12,  De- 
cember, 19*20.  In  addition  to  general  topics  in  the  economics  of  in- 
dustry and  labor  legislation,  the  course  covers  also  factors  in  indus- 
trial efficiency;  wages — methods  of  payment;  problems  of  employ- 
ment— hiring,  discharging,  promoting. 

STATE  UNIVERSITY  OF  IOWA. 

Iowa  City,  Iowa. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PHILOSOPHY  AND  PSYCHOLOGY. — This  department 
is  at  work  on  the  following  tests:  (1)  A  test  for  the  selection  of 
eighth-grade  students  possessing  stenographic  predispositions;  (2) 
a  group  test  for  the  selection  of  clerical  workers  adapted  to  the  em- 
ployment departments  which  would  maintain  waiting  lists  and  ex- 
amine a  large  number  of  applicants  at  one  time;  (3)  a  group  test 
for  determining  relative  merit  in  elementary  school  teachers  for  city, 
county,  and  State  examinations;  (4)  preliminary  work  has  been 
started  on  a  technique  of  measuring  significant  interests  and  tempera- 


184  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

mental  and  emotional  aspects  of  successful  business  executives  in  con- 
trast to  unsuccessful  business  executives. 

Prof.  C.  E.  Seashore  has  published  a  number  of  papers  dealing 
with  measures  of  musical  talent  and  vocational  and  avocational 
guidance  in  music. 

Volume  8  of  the  "  University  of  Iowa  studies  in  psychology,"  now 
in  press  (Psychological  Monograph  series),  contains  papers  "dealing 
with  standard  procedures  in  rating  and  directing  musical  talent, 
typewriting,  and  stenography  tests,  and  special  measures  of  fitness. 

COLLEGE  OF  MEDICINE. — A  study  of  "  Health  hazards  in  the  pearl 
button  industry,"  by  E.  G.  Birge  and  L.  C.  Havens,  made  in  the 
Division  of  Hygiene,  Preventive  Medicine,  and  Epidemiology,  was 
published  in  Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene  (v.  2,  No.  3,  July',  1920, 
p.  81-89).  Certain  studies  in  heating,  lighting,  and  ventilating,  with 
special  reference  to  school  buildings,  are  in  progress  at  the  present 
time. 

An  elective  course  on  industrial  hygiene  (two  hours  a  week)  is 
given  in  the  second  semester.  The  students  are  expected  to  make  an 
investigation  and  report  on  an  assigned  industrial  condition. 

JOHNS  HOPKINS  UNIVERSITY. 

Homewood,  Baltimore,  Md. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL  LABORATORY. — Knight  Dunlap,  professor  of  experi- 
mental psychology.  Two  courses  on  the  methods  and  technique  of 
mental  measurements  and  a  course  on  their  commercial  and  indus- 
trial applications  are  given  in  this  department  by  Prof.  Buford  J. 
Johnson. 

During  1919-20  research  on  problems  of  the  psychological  effects 
of  tobacco  smoking  was  conducted  by  Prof.  Dunlap  and  others  at  the 
request  of  the  American  Committee  for  the  Study  of  the  Tobacco 
Problem.  In  furtherance  of  this  investigation  it  was  necessary  to 
devise  new  apparatus  and  new  forms  of  test  material,  which  are 
available  for  research  on  many  other  problems.  These  include  the 
"  omitted  letter  test,"  12  forms  of  which,  of  equal  difficulty,  have  been 
completed;  and  new  apparatus  for  the  graphic  recording  of  attention 
changes.  Dr,  L.  W.  Kline  completed  an  investigation  on  the  effects 
of  inhibitions  in  the  learning  process. 

JOHNS  HOPKINS  UNIVERSITY— School  of  Hygiene  and  Public  Health. 
310-312  West  Monument  Street,  Baltimore,  Md.     William  H. 
Welch,  M.  D.,  director. 

Established  June,  1916,  with  the  aid  of  the  Rockefeller  Foundation 
of  New  York;  opened  for  instruction  October,  1918.  The  main 
objects  of  the  school  are  to  establish  courses  for  the  training  of 
qualified  persons  for  public-health  work,  to  promote  investigative 
work  in  hygiene  and  preventive  medicine  and  provide  opportunities 
for  the  training  of  investigators  in  these  subjects,  and  to  develop 
adequate  means  for  the  dissemination  of  sound  hygienic  knowledge. 
Occupational  diseases  and  vocational  hygiene  are  included  in  the 
scope  of  its  work. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PHYSIOLOGY. — The  courses  of  instruction  in  this 
department  include : 

1.  The  physiology  of  work  and  fatigue  in  industry  (Dr.  R.  A. 
Spaeth),  dealing  with  the  theoretical  and  experimental  aspects  of 


UNIVERSITIES  AND    COLLEGES.  185 

muscular  and  mental  work  and  fatigue  and  practical  problems,  such, 
as  the  limitation  of  scientific  management,  length  of  the  industrial 
workday,  night  work,  industrial  accidents  and  fatigue,  monotony 
and  incentives,  the  emotionally  unstable,  civilian  shell-shock  ana- 
logues, standardization  of  industrial  working  conditions,  physical 
examination  of  ^workers,  and  the  physical,  physiological,  and  psy- 
chological standardization  of  industrial  workers  by  trades  and  proc- 
esses (including  laboratory  training  in  tests  and  class  visits  and 
surveys  of  local  industries,  with  reports  and  seminar  discussion). 

2.  The   physiological  action  of  light  and  other  radiations    (Dr. 
Janet  H.  Clark),  including  the  subject  of  illumination  in  relation  to 
hygienic  conditions  of  lighting  in  factories,  with  investigation  of 
lighting  conditions  in  local  factories. 

3.  Respiration,  ventilation,  and  climatology   (Dr.  A.  L.  Meyer), 
including  a  study  of  the  various  types  of  ventilation  employed  in 
factories,  etc..  and  laboratory  work  on  methods  of  air  analysis  and 
use  of  instruments  applicable  to  the  study  of  air  conditions. 

Some  researches  regarding  the  relation  between  susceptibility  to 
toxins  and  fatigue  are  in  progress. 

The  following  contributions  to  industrial  hygiene  have  recently 
been  published : 

The  problem  of  fatigue,  by  R.  A.  Spaeth.  (Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene, 
v.  1,  No.  1,  May,  11)19,  p.  22-53.)  Bibliography,  p.-  42-53. 

The  prevention  of  fatigue  in  manufacturing  industries,  by  R.  A.  Spaeth. 
(Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene,  v.  1,  No.  9,  Jan.,  1920,  p.  435-447.) 

A  method  for  determining  the  finer  dust  particles  in  air,  by  A.  L.  Meyer. 
(Journal  of  Jndiisii-ial  Hygiene,  v.  3,  No.  2,  June,  1921,  p.  51-56.) 

LELAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR  UNIVERSITY. 

Stanford  University,  Calif. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION, — Lewis  M.  Terman,  professor.  The 
principal  contribution  from  this  department  is  the  "  Stanford  re- 
vision "  of  the  Binet-Simon  scale.  A  guide  to  its  use  and  a  compan- 
ion volume  of  source  material  have  been  issued,  viz : 

Teriiftin.  L.  M.     The  measurement  of  intelligence.     Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin, 

Terman.  L.  M.,  and  others.  The  Stanford  revision  and  extension  of  the 
Bluet-Simon  scale  for  measuring  intelligence.  Baltimore,  Warwick  and  York, 
1917.  170  p.  (Educ.  Psychol.  Monog.  No.  18.)  .< 

The  following  articles  on  intelligence  tests  have  been  published  in 
psychological  journals : 

Terman,  L.  M.  A  trial  of  mental  and  pedagogical  tests  in  a  civil-service  ex- 
amination for  policemen  and  firemen.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  v.  1,  No.  1,  Mar., 
1917  p  17—29  )  * 

Terman,  L.  M.,  and  Chamberlain,  Mary  B.  Twenty-three  serial  tests  of  in-' 
telligem-e  and  their  intercorrelation.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  v.  2,  No.  4,  Dec., 

Proctor,  W°M.  The  use  of  psychological  tests  in  the  vocational  guidance  of 
high-school  pupils.  (Jour.  Educ.  Research,  v.  2,  No.  2,  Sept.,  1920,  p.  533- 

Prof.  Terman  conducts  courses  on  intelligence  tests  and  psychol- 
ogv  of  endowment  and  a  seminar  on  intelligence  problems. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PHYSIOLOGY.— E.  G.  Martin,  professor  ot  phy- 
siology. The  following  investigations  in  industrial  physiology  have 
recently  been  completed  in  this  laboratory :  ~4 

Strength  tests  in  industry,  by  E.  G.  Martin.  (U.  S.  Pub.  Health  Rep.,  Aug.  13, 
m  lieprint  No.  606.) 


186  TIE.   iSTOls  OFFICIAL  AGENr 


;nul  eiUcionry  of  smokers  iu  a  strenuous  mental  oc-cup.  J.  P. 

and  K  (J.  Martin.      (.lour.  Indust.  Hyg.,  Get,  1920,  v.  2,  No.  6,  p. 
207-121.4.  ) 

Output  shuly  of  users  and  nonusors  of  tobacco  in  a  strenuous  physical  • 
pation,  by  liaumbtM-.ucr,  Perry,  ami  Martin.     (.lour.  Indtist.  llyu.,  May.  1'.)21,  v. 
3,  No.  1.  p.  1-10-  ) 

F.itiiHie  an<l  error  in  a  nieid:il  occupation,  by  ,T.  P.  Buiiinbcrirer.  (Tour.  Ii 
i-.,  1921,  v.  M.  No.  .->,  p    ; 

Researches  are  in  progress  on  the  following  subjects  :  Fatigue  and 
working  capacity  as  affected  by  alternating  operations,  rest  periods, 
and  pride  of  craftsmanship;  tolerances  in  the  glass-bottle  trade  in 
relation  to  Weber's  law  and  visual  judgments  of  sixe;  output  studies 
of  shipyard  riveters. 

MASSACHUSETTS  INSTITUTE  OF  TECHNOLOGY. 

Cambridge,  Mass. 

A  cooperative  course  (YI-A)  in  electrical  engineering  has  been 
arranged  between  the  institute  and  the  General  Electric  Co.  at  West 
Lynn,  Mass.  The  course  covers  a  total  of  five  years,  the  first  two  be- 
ing identical  with  the  regular  course  in  electrical  engineering  (course 
VI)  at  the  institute,  the  last  three  being  divided  between  instruction 
in  theory  at  the  institute  and  instruction  in  practice  at  the  Lynn 
works.  The  latter  is  supervised  by  a  joint  committee  representing 
both  the  institute  and  the  company.  The  class  is  divided  into  two 
sections  which  exchange  places  at  the  end  of  each  period  »  of  approxi- 
mately three  months,  into  which  the  time  occupied  by  the  cooperative 
training  is  divided.  Further  details  are  given  in  a  special  bulletin  of 
the  institute. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  MICHIGAN. 

Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  ECONOMICS.  —  Course  34  on  employment  manage- 
ment and  an  advanced  course  Ma  following  it  are  given  by  Asst.  Prof. 
C.  C.  Edmonds.  The  following  subjects  are  being  developed  by  sev- 
eral students  in  seminar  during  the  academic  year  1920-21:  Sources 
of  supply  of  labor;  selecting  unskilled  labor;  illiterate  and  non- 
English  speaking  labor;  the  personnel  department  and  the  wage  ques- 
tion. 

DEPARTMENT  or  EDUCATION.  —  Under  the  direction  of  the  professor 
of  industrial  education  (Geo.  E.  Myers)  courses  have  been  conducted 
in  Grand  Rapids  for  training  of  foremen.  A  brief  outline  of  the 
course  is  given  in  the  report  of  Committee  on  Foremanship  Training 
j)f  the  National  Association  of  Corporation  Training.  (See  p.  118.) 

BUREAU  OF  MENTAL  TESTS  AND  MEASUREMENTS.  —  Guy  M.  Whipple, 
director.  The  work  of  this  bureau  in  the  department  of  education  has 
consisted  of  studies  of  the  intelligence  of  students  who  are  failing  in 
their  university  work.  The  director  is  the  author  of  "Manual  of 
mental  and  physical  tests"  (2d  eel.,  Baltimore,  1911-15,  2  vols.). 

UNIVERSITY  OF  MINNESOTA. 

Minneapolis,  Minn. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATIONAL  PSYCHOLOGY  (COLLEGE  OF  EDUCA- 
TION). —  M.  E.  Haggerty,  head  of  department  and  dean  of  the  college 
of  education.  A  study  on  the  relation  of  intelligence  to  the  learning 
of  telegraphy  by  Miss  Margaretta  Weber  is  in  progress. 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  187 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY  ((  'OKLEGE  OF  SCIENCE,  LITESATURB,  AND 
TIII-:  A  UTS  i. — Richard  M.  Elliott,  professor.  Tins  department  has 
just  been  reorganized  and  now  includes  for  the  first  time  a  part-time 
nctor  in  industrial  psychology. 

SCHOOL,  OF  BITMXESS. — A  program  of  two  years'  work  offering  basic 
training  to  (L)  prospective  heads  of  personnel  in  business  establish- 
ments, and  ('2)  to  persons  who  expect  to  participate  as  trained  experts 
in  the  adjustment  of  matters  pertaining  to  the  employment  of  labor, 
is  outlined  in  the  bulletin  of  the  university  containing  the  announce- 
ment of  the  School  of  Business.  This  includes  two  quarter  courses  on 
industrial  relations  in  the  department  of  economics,  by  Dr.  Z,  C. 
Dickinson,  and  a  course  on  employment  psychology  in  the  department 
of  psychology,  by  Dr.  J.  J.  B.  Morgan.  The  first  quarter's  work  in 
industrial  relations,  intended  also  for  students  of  the  liberal  arts  col- 
lege, covers  the  broader  problems  of  labor  policy,  from  the  standpoint 
of  management :  the  second  course  deals  specifically  with  employment 
and  personnel  management;  both  include  study  of  practice  in  repre- 
sentative establishments  and  written  reports  thereon.  The  course  in 
employment  psychology  includes  standardization  of  the  personal 
interview,  the  principles  and  development  of  tests,  and  personnel 
ifieation:  and  independent  investigations  are  required  of  each 
student. 

NEW  SCHOOL  FOR  SOCIAL  RESEARCH. 

4(>:>  \Ye-i  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Courses'  in  empiovisienl  administration  were,  given,  during  191ft- 
1920  by  the  Bureau  of  Industrial  Research  (see  p.  87)  in  affiliation 
with  the  New  School  of  Social  Research.  These  were  designed  to 
pro\'>de  professional  training  in  this  field,  but  were  discontinued 
in  1920. 

Din-ing  the  session  1920-21  a  course  in  "problems  of  industrial  rela- 
tions" was  given  at  the  New  School  by  Mr.  Ordway  Tead,  devoted  to 
reh  and  critical  analysis  into  the  methods  of  administering  the 
relations  between  management  and  men  in  industry. 

An  advanced  course  on  problems  of  American  labor,  intended  to 
meet  the  needs  of  persons  engaged  in  labor  work  or  carrying  on 
research  in  the  field,  is  among  those  announced  to  be  given  by  Dr. 
Leo  Wolman  in  1921-22,  Wage  adjustment,  systems  of  industrial 
^.  workers'  control,  and  trade-union  policy  are  among  the 
topics  to  be  dealt  with. 

In  April,  1921,  the  first  national  conference  on  workers9  education 
in  the  United  States  was  held  at  the  school  by  labor  representatives 
and  teachers  in  that  field ;  and  as  a  result  of  this  conference,  the  Work- 
ers' Educational  Bureau  of  America  was  organized,  with  headquarters 
at  the  school. 

NEW  YORK  SCHOOL  OF  SOCIAL  WORK. 

105  East  Twenty-second  Street,  New  lorK>  N.  I. 
DEPARTMENT  OF  INDUSTRY.— The  objectives  of  this  department  are 
(1)  to  provide  vocational  training  for  direct  service  in  this  field,  (2) 
to  make  available  such  facts  and  sources  of  information  concerning 
it  as  should  be  a  part  of  the  equipment  of  every  intelligent  social 
worker.  The  courses  are  conducted  by  John  A.  Fitch  and  Ordway 
Tead  and  include  (27)  psychology  in  industry;  (121-122)  principles 


188  III.   NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

and  practice  of  personnel  administration.  The  latter  includes  field 
work  in  the  employment  departments  of  factories  and  stores  in  the 
vicinity.  A  study  of  one  of  the  building  trades-unions  in  New  York 
City  and  a  study  of  the  place  where  personnel  policy  is  decided  upon 
in  a  selected  group  of  corporations  have  recently  been  made. 

NEW  YORK  UNIVERSITY. 

Washington  Square,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

SCHOOL  OF  COMMERCE,  ACCOUNTS,  AND  FINANCE. — In  the  Depart- 
ment of  Business  Management  a  course  on  labor  and  employment 
management  (37-38)  is  given  by  J.  D.  Hackett,  Thursday  evenings, 
first  and  second  terms,  designed  especially  for  the  employees  of  pro- 
gressive concerns  who  wish  to  learn  the  methods  which  have  proved 
successful  in  the  most  advanced  plants  of  the  country.  In  the 
seminar  on  management  (101-102)  by  Prof.  Galloway  and  others, 
special  investigations  by  students  and  faculty  on  various  manage- 
ment problems  are  discussed.  During  1920-21  these  included  (1) 
working  out  of  a  bonus  system  in  a  large  office,  (2)  lowering  of  labor 
turnover  in  factories. 

Courses  are  also  given  in  the  principles  and  methods  of  training 
employees  (35-3G),  industrial  lunchroom  management  (39)  and  pre- 
vention and  first  aid  for  the  industrial  worker  (40). 

TRAINING  SCHOOL  FOR  TEACHERS  OF  RETAIL  SELLING. — Norris  A. 
Brisco,  director.  This  school,  recently  established,  prepares  college 
graduates  and  others  with  equivalent  general  ability,  who  have  passed 
satisfactorily  a.  personality  test,  for  positions  as  teachers  of  salesman- 
ship in  high  schools  or  directors  of  training  for  department  stores 
and  for  other  managerial  positions  in  retail  stores.  The  general 
policy  is  determined  by  a  committee  of  six  merchants,  three  university 
and  two  public-school  representatives.  The  so-called  New  York  plan 
adopted  is  a  two-year  course,  one-half  the  day  being  given  to  study 
and  lectures,  the  other  half  to  practical  training  in  the  stores.  Work- 
ing fellowships  from  $700  to  $1,000  are  provided;  and  a.  special 
coordinator  devotes  his  time  to  investigation  of  store  work  for  the 
guidance  of  the  students.  Instruction  is  given  in  retail  salesmanship, 
methods  of  training,  store  organization,  employment  management, 
tests,  ratings,  and  personnel  problems,  and  in  textiles,  nontextiles, 
color  and  design.  Each  student  prepares  a  written  thesis  from  his 
observations  and  a  study  of  some  particular  activity  during  his  prac- 
tical training  period.  . 

NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY. 

Evanston,  111.    Walter  Dill  Scott,  president. 

SCHOOL  OF  COMMERCE,  31  Lake  Street.,  Chicago,  111.— Courses  of 
instruction  for  employment  managers,  educational  directors,  labor 
managers,  safety  engineers,  welfare  directors,  and  others  interested 
in  employment  and  personnel  problems  are  given  in  the  evenings  and 
on  Saturday  afternoons.  They  include :  Employment  management 
(second  semester,  Tuesday  evenings),  by  Prof .  Dutton  and  special  lec- 
turers, dealing  with  methods  and  technique ;  Personnel  management 
(each  semester,  Saturday  afternoons),  by  Mrs.  Mary  H.  S.  Hayes,  in 
which  the  selection  and 'handling  of  men  is  discussed  from  the  basis 
of  fundamental  theory  and  emphasis  is  placed  on  aims  and  principles 
rather  than  on  technique;  Vocational  and  employment  psychology 
(each  semester,  Monday  evenings),  by  Prof.  Webb. 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  189 

The  Bureau  of  Business  Research,  which  is  an  integral  part  of  the 
school,  conducts  investigations  regarding  business  principles  and 
practice  and  provides  research  opportunities  for  graduate  students. 
It  has  recently  completed  a  survey  of  industrial  and  personnel  prob- 
lems connected  with  the  book  and  job  printing  industry  in  Chicago: 

Babcock,  F.  M.  Apprenticeship  and  labor  recruiting,  book  and  job  printing 
industry,  Chicago,  111.  1921. 

OHIO  STATE  UNIVERSITY. 

Columbus,  Ohio. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — Rudolph  Pintner,  professor  of  psy- 
chology. The  following  studies  in  the  field  of  personnel  research  have 
been  published  by  members  of  this  department : 

Pintner,  K.,  and  Toops.  H.  A.  Mental  tests  of  unemployed  men.  (Jour.  App. 
Psychol.,  v.  1,  No.  4,  Dec.,  1917,  p.  325-341 ;  v.  2,  No.  1,  Mar.,  1918,  p.  15-25.) 

Toops.  H.  A.,  and  Pintner,  R.  Variability  of  the  education  of  unemployed 
men.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  v.  2,  No.  3,  Sept.,  1918,  p.  207-218.) 

—  Kducational   differences  among  tradesmen.      (Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  v.  3, 
No.  1,  Mar.,  UHl).  p.  :;M-H>.) 

IJurtt,  Harold  E.  Employment  psychology  in  the  rubber  industry.  (Jour. 
App.  Psychol.,  v.  4,  No.  1,  Mar.,  1920,  p.  1-17.) 

The  above  studies  of  unemployed  were  made  among  persons  regis- 
tering in  the  Ohio  free  employment  offices. 

An  investigation  of  vocational  tests  for  agricultural  engineers,  by 
Dr.  H.  E.  Burtt,  is  in  progress. 

Dr.  Burtt  is  giving  courses  in  industrial  psychology  and  is  plan- 
ning to  start  a  laboratory  course  in  1921-22  which  will  take  the 
students  out  into  the  factories  and  business  houses  in  Columbus  in 
order  to  get  practical  experience  in  the  field. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLIC  HEALTH  AND  SANITATION. — Dr.  Emery  R. 
Hayhurst,  professor  of  hygiene  and  head  of  department.  Beginning 
w it'll  the  academic  year  1921-22,  a  special  course  in  industrial  medi- 
cine is  offered  under  the  administration  of  this  department,  to  pre- 
pare recent  graduates  in  medicine,  both  men  and  women,  to  become 
medical  directors  and  supervisors  in  industrial  and  mercantile  estab- 
lishments, and  providing  an  interneship  on  a  part-time  basis  in  in- 
dustrial work.  For  the  first  year  the  number  of  students  is  limited 
to  five,  to  assure  their  satisfactory  placements  for  practical  experi- 
ence in  the  industries  of  Columbus.  In  addition  to  hygiene  and  sani- 
tation as  applied  to  industry,  the  economic  placement  of  physically 
or  mentally  handicapped  workers  and  the  industrial  rehabilitation 
of  those  suffering  from  all  forms  of  temporary  disablements  are  spe- 
cial features  of  this  course. 

PENNSYLVANIA  STATE  COLLEGE. 

State  College,  Pa. 

ENGINEERING  EXPERIMENT  STATION. — Grain-dust  explosion  experi- 
ments have  been  conducted  here  in  cooperation  with  the  Bureau  of 
Chemistry,  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture.  (See  p.  25.) 

UNIVERSITY  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

SCHOOL  OF  PUBLIC  HYGIENE.— A.  C.  Abbott,  M.  D.,  director.  The 
Industrial  Hygiene  Department  of  this  school  has  conducted  or 
collaborated  in  the  following  investigations : 

(a)  Completed  and  results  published: 


190  III.   NONOFFIClAXi  AGKNCIES. 


A  survey  of  the  cigar-making  industry  in  Philadelphia,  made  in 
collaboration  with  the  Clinic  for  Diseases  of  Occupation,  University 


in 

University 

Hospital,  for  the  Pennsylvania  State  Department  of  Labor;  results 
published  in — 

Smyili.  II.  I'\.  ami  Miller.  T.  Grier.  A  hygienic  survey  of  ci:,'.ir  manufacturing 
in  Philadelphia.  (Medicine  and  Surgery.  Sept..  1917,  p.  69S-7.18.) 

Miller,  T.  (J.,  and  Smyth,  H.  F.  The  health  hazards  of  clear  manufacturing. 
(Penna.  Med.  Jour.,  Mar.,  1918,  v.  21,  p.  360-364.) 

Field  and  laboratory  studies  of  dust  conditions  in  various  indus- 
tries, in  collaboration  with  the  Clinic  for  Diseases  of  Occupation, 
University  Hospital,  published  in — 

Smyth,  H.  F.,  and  Miller,  T.  (J.  A  preliminary  report  on  dust  studio-;  in 
various  industries.  (Penna.  Med.  Jour..  Alar.,  1018,  v.  21,  p.  364-367.) 

Miller,  T.  G.,  and  Smyth.  H.  F.  The  dust  hazard  in  certain  industries. 
(Jour.  Amer.  MV-d.  Assoc.,  Mar.  2,  1918,  v.  70,  p.  ~>i»9-G04.) 

Smyth.  H.  F.  Su^vsted  modifications  of  the  standard  method  for  the  study 
of  the  dust  content  of  air.  (Amer.  Jour.  Pub.  Health,  Oct.,  1918,  v.  S,  p.  7G9- 
771.) 

Smyth,  H.  F.,  and  Iszard,  Miriam  S.  The  practical  hygienic  efficiency  of  the 
Palmer  apparatus  for  determining  dust  in  air.  (Jour.  Indu&t.  Hyg.,  v.  3,  Mo. 
5,  Sept.,  1921,  p.  159-167.) 

Field  and  laboratory  investigations  on  the  detection  and  estima- 
tion of  anilin  fume  in  the  air  of  departments  of  an  anilin  and  inter- 
mediate products  plant,  published  in— 

Iszard,  Miriam  S.  Determination  of  aniliu  vapors  in  the  air.  (Jour.  Indus!. 
Hyg.,  v.  2,  No.  7,  Nov.,  1920,  p.  259-266.) 

Estimation   of  toxic  water  soluble  dust  with  the  Palmer  apparatus. 
(Idem,  v.  2,  No.  9,  Jan.,  1921.  p.  344-347.) 

A  survey  and  study  of  the  anthrax  problem  in  the  horsehair- dress- 
ing industry  in  Philadelphia,  in  collaboration  with  the  Division  of 
Hygiene  and  Engineering,  Pennsylvania  State  Department  of  Labor; 
results  published  in — 

Smyth.  H.  F.  The  anthrax  problem  in  horsehair.  (Jour.  Indus}.  Hv^.,  v. 
2,  No.  11.  Mar.,  1021,  p.  423-182.) 

(b)  Completed  but  results  not  as  yet  published: 

Investigations  of  CO2  and  CO  content  of  air  in  various  depart- 
ments of  a  felt-hat  factory;  survey  of  women  in  industry  in  Phila- 
delphia after  the  war  (master's  thesis)  ;  inspection  of  an  organic 
color  mixing  plant  for  the  Philadelphia  Department  of  Health. 

In  collaboration  with  the  Clinic  for  Diseases  of  Occupation,  Uni- 
versity Hospital :  Investigation  of  the  cause  of  and  prevention  of  out- 
breaks of  oil  grinder's  furunculosis  in  a  steel  ball-hearing  factory; 
physical  examinations,  sputum  examinations,  and  X-rays  of  the 
lungs  of  workers  in  stove  foundries, 

(c)  In  progress: 

Study  of  the  Schattenfroh  and  other  methods  of  disinfecting  hides 
for  anthrax;  laboratory  studies  on  the  fate  and  effects  of  various 
industrial  dusts  inhaled  by  animals. 

(d)  Planned  for  the  immediate  future: 

Studies  on  the  relative  resistance  to  tubercular  and  other  affec- 
tions of  animals  exposed  to  various  industrial  dusts. 

In  collaboration  with  the  Henry  Phipps  Institute,  Philadelphia: 
Surveys  of  industrial  hygiene  conditions  in  various  industries  in 
conjunction  with  physical  examinations  of  employees. 


UNIVERSITIES   AND   COLLEGES.  191 

In  addition  to  the  alx>ve  research  work,  the  public  health  students 
make  weekly  inspection  trips  during:  the  second  semester  to  various 
industrial  establishments,  during  which  trips  advice  and  criticism  is 
often  asked  for  by  plant  officials  and  gladly  given  by  the  department 
representatives. 

HENRY  PHIPPS  INSTITUTE  FOR  THE  STUDY,  TREATMENT,  AND 
PREVENTION  OF  TUBERCULOSIS. 

Seventh  and  Lombard  Streets,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  H.  R.  M. 
Landis,  M.  D.,  director  of  Clinical  and  Sociological  Depart- 
ments. 

This  institute,  established  in  1903  and  supported  up  to  May,  1919, 
entirely  by  funds  donated  by  Mr.  Henry  Jrhipps,  is  said  to  be  the 
first  organization  brought  into  existence  for  the  express  purpose  of 
eradicating  tuberculosis  through  intensive  and  scientific  research. 
Since  July  1,  1910,  it  has  been  under  the  supervision  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Three  industrial  hygiene  studies  made  under  its  auspices  have  been 
published,  viz : 

Factors  aftVctiiig  the  health  of  garment  makers.  By  H.  R.  M.  Landis  and 
Janice  S.  Reed.  (8th  report  of  the  Henry  Phipps  Institute.  Philadelphia, 
1915.  104  p.) 

A  llontgpnologiral  study  of  the  effects  of  dust  inhalation  upon  the  lungs. 
By  H.  K.  Pain  -oast.  T.  <;.  Miller,  and  H.  R.  M.  Landis.  (Am.  Jour,  of  Roent- 
genol'-.gy.  v.  ",,  No.  3,  Mar.,  1918,  p.  12^-138.) 

The  pathological  mid  clinical  manifestations  following  the  inhalation  of 
dust.  P.y  II.  U.  M.  Landis.  (Jour.  Indust.  Hyg.,  v.  1,  No.  3,  July,  1919,  p. 
U7-131U 

A  survey  of  policemen  and  firemen  in  Philadelphia  has  recently 
been  completed,  but  the  data  obtained  is  not  yet  ready  for  publica- 
tion. 

WHARTON  SCHOOL  OF  FINANCE  AND  COMMERCE. 

University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

One  of  the  three-year  courses  of  study  in  this  school  covers  the 
field  of  labor  management  (Prof.  J.  EC  Willits,  adviser).  In  the 
senior  year  this  includes  the  following  courses  (each  two  hours, 
t>oth  terms)  in  the  department  of  geography  and  industry :  9,  Field 
work  in  industry  (inspection  of  management  problems  in  manufac- 
turing establishments)  ;  10,  Industrial  relations  and  employment 
management:  11,  Research  in  management  (an  intensive  study  of  a 
management  problem  of  a  specific  industrial  plant  in  the  Philadel- 
phia district)  ;  12,  Industrial  policy. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  INDUSTRIAL  RESEARCH. — Joseph  H.  Willits,  di- 
rector. Established  at  the  Wharton  School  of  Finance  and  Com- 
merce early  in  1921,  the  purpose  of  this  department  is  to  "  apply  the 
methods  of  thorough  scientific  research  to  various  fundamental  prob- 
lems in  industry,  such  as  industrial  relations,  so  that  human  well- 
being,  and  especially  the  more  general  distribution  of  human  well- 
being,  may  be  increased,  and  to  provide  a  bureau  to  which  the  various 
elements  of  the  industrial  community  may  turn  for  scientific  research 
on  industrial  problems."  The  University  of  Pennsylvania,  American 
Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science,  Pennsylvania  Department 
of  Labor  and  Industry,  Philadelphia  Association  for  the  Discussion 
of  Employment  Problems,  and  15  firms  representing  the  machine, 


192  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

textile,  transportation,  and  publishing  industries  have  agreed  to  co- 
operate in  its  establishment  and  support.  The  Carnegie  Corporation 
of  New  York  has  granted  $50,000  per  annum  for  five  years  on  the 
condition,  which  has  been  met,  that  $10,000  is  contributed  locally. 
The  funds  will  be  administered  by  the  trustees  of  the  university. 

Research  conducted  will  follow  the  cooperative  method,  the  per- 
sonnel of  the  firms  cooperating  being  available  for  laboratory  pur- 
poses. The  tentative  program  of  subjects  to  be  studied  covers  (a) 
industrial  education  and  training  (including  foremen's  courses,  job 
analyses  from  standpoint  of  teachable  content)  ;  (b)  selection  and 
guidance  (including  psychological  and  trade  tests)  ;  (c)  stabiliza- 
tion of  work  and  workers  (steadying  of  production,  unemployment 
funds,  studies  of  turnover  and  absenteeism) ;  (<7)  physiological  prob- 
lems (fatigue,  results  of  medical  and  health  work  in  terms  of  sta- 
bility and  productivity)  ;  (e)  wages,  standards,  and  cost  of  living; 
(/)  plant  relations  with  the  community  (public  emplo3^ment  bu- 
reaus, public  schools,  State  labor  department).  The  installation  of 
uniform  records  to  secure  comparable  information  from  the  cooperat- 
ing concerns  is  to  be  undertaken  immediately  and  a  special  evening 
training  course  in  personnel  work  is  to  be  given  for  employees  se- 
lected by  the  cooperating  firmfe. 

Three  investigations  are  in  progress:  (1)A  study  in  foreman 
training,  undertaken  at  the  request  of  the  Philadelphia  Association 
for  the  Discussion  of  Employment  Problems,  to  evaluate  the  results 
of  the  20-week  course  for  foremen  given  by  that  association,  by  in- 
terviews with  a  considerable  number  of  the  TOO  foremen  who  took 
the  course;  (2)  a  study  of  plant  publications;  (3)  a  study  of  the 
causes  of  leaving,  being  made  cooperatively  with  a  group  of  con- 
cerns which  regularly  report  their  "  leaves  "  to  the  department. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  PITTSBURGH. 

Bigelow  Boulevard,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

SCHOOL  OF  ECONOMICS. — A  course  on  personnel  administration, 
two  hours  each  week  throughout  the  year,  is  given  by  Mr.  B.  F. 
Ashe,  employment  manager  for  the  American  Zinc  &  Chemical 
Co.,  Langeloth,  Pa. 

SCHOOL  OF  ENGINEERING. — F.  L.  Bishop,  dean.  The  cooperative 
plan  of  engineering  education,  which  has  been  in  operation  in  this 
school  since  1911,  is  described  in  a  special  issue  of  the  university  bul- 
letin. The  freshman  year,  the  summer  term  following,  the  sophomore 
year,  and  the  senior  year  are  spent  entirely  in  school ;  the  intervening 
terms  of  the  sophomore  and  junior  years  are  spent  alternately  in  the 
school  and  in  the  cooperative  work  in  engineering  industries  of  the 
Pittsburgh  district,  each  class  being  divided  into  two  sections  for 
this  purpose. 

PRINCE  SCHOOL  OF  EDUCATION  FOR  STORE  SERVICE. 

66  Beacon  Street,  Boston.  Mass.    Mrs.  Lucinda  Wyrnan  Prince, 

director. 

Established  in  1905  as  the  School  of  Salesmanship  at  the  Women's 
Educational  and  Industrial  Union  in  Boston  (see  p.  163) ;  in  1918  the 
school  moved  into  quarters  of  its  own  and  the  present  name  was 
adopted.  Its  original  object  was  to  provide  training  for  saleswomen 
in  department  stores.  The  chief  purpose  of  the  school  now  is  to  train 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  193 

personnel  executives — educational  directors,  employment  managers, 
superintendents — for  stores  and,  to  an  increasing  extent,  for  fac- 
tories. It  is  affiliated  with  Simmons  College,  and  the  National  Re- 
tail Dry  Goods  Association  (see  p.  133)  and  the  Boston  merchants 
have  cooperated  in  its  support.  A  history  of  this  school,  together 
with  an  account  of  the  training  methods  developed,  under  the  title 
"  Department  store  education,"  by  Helen  Rich  Norton  has  been  pub- 
lished by  United  States  Bureau  of  Education  as  its  Bulletin  (1917) 
No.  9. 

The  director  of  the  school  is  the  author  of  Bulletin  No.  22  (Com- 
mercial Education  Series  No.  1),  "  Retail  selling"  (103  p.),  issued  by 
the  Federal  Board  for  Vocational  Education  in  1919. 

PRINCE  ALUMNA  ASSOCIATION  holds  its  annual  meeting  at  the  same 
time  as  the  National  Retail  Dry  Goods  Association.  Sessions  are  de- 
voted to  the  presentation  and  discussion  of  educational,  employment 
and  research  work  in  stores  and  to  the  work  of  teachers  of  retail 
selling  in  the  public  schools.  Its  publication  The  Prince  Alumnae 
A'ctt-x  contains  papers  on  department  store  personnel  work. 

PRINCETON  UNIVERSITY. 

Princeton,  N.  J. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL  LABORATORY. — H.  C.  McComas,  director.  The  con- 
tributions from  this  laboratory  include  the  following  monographs 
on  mental  tests : 

Briglmm,  C.  C.  Two  studies  in  mental  tests:  I.  Variable  factors  in  the 
I'.iiuM  tests.  II.  The  diagnostic  value  of  some  mental  tests.  1917.  254  p. 
(Tsycliol.  Monographs,  v.  iM,  No.  1,  whole  No.  102.) 

Doll.  E.  A.  The  .urowth  of  intelligence.  1921.  130  p.  (Psychol.  Mono- 
graphs, v.  29,  No.  'J.  whole  No.  131.) 

A  study  in  tests  of  mechanical  ingenuity,  by  S.  W.  Prince,  has  been 
completed  recently  but  is  not  yet  published. 

PURDUE  UNIVERSITY. 

Lafayette,  Ind. 

SCHOOL  OF  MECHANICAL  ENGINEERING. — George  H.  Shepard,  pro- 
fessor of  industrial  engineering  and  management,  is  conducting  tests 
to  obtain  quantitative  data  on  the  relation  between  rest  periods  dur- 
ing working  hours  in  industry  and  production  or  output.  A  pre- 
liminary report  on  this  year's  tests  was  presented  at  the  spring  meet- 
ing, 1921,  of  the  Society  of  Industrial  Engineers;  a  final  report  is 
to  be  published  in  Industrial  Management  in  the  fall  of  1921.  It  is 
expected  that  these  tests  will  be  continued  from  year  to  year  as  a 
regular  feature  of  the  work  in  industrial  management  at  Purdue 
University. 

SIMMONS  COLLEGE. 

Boston,  Mass. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — In  1920  Dr.  A.  A.  Roback,  special 
instructor  in  psychology,  prepared  a1  set  of  12  tests  for  a  general 
intelligence  examination  of  the  students  of  the  college,  which  has 
been  printed  under  the  title  "Roback  mentality  tests  for  superior 
adults."  A  report  on  this  examination  is  published  in  The  Simmons 
College  Review  (v.  3,  No.  8,  June,  1921,  p.  313-318). 

SCHOOL  OF  SOCIAL  WORK. — During  the  past  year  the  class  in  social 
inquiry,  under  the  direction  of  Miss  Lucile  Eaves,  made  a  study 
70723°— Bull.  299—21 13 


194  III.    NONOFFICIAL   AGENCIES. 

dealing  with  the  employment  of  handicapped  women.  One  thousand 
case  records  from  the  Bureau  for  the  Handicapped,  maintained  by 
the  Women's  Educational  and  Industrial  Union,  were  tabulated. 
The  results  of  the  investigation  have  been  published  by  the  Union, 
with  five  other  studies  made  by  students  in  this  school  under  the  title 
"  Gainful  employment  for  handicapped  women  "  (32  p.). 

In  the  previous  year  students  in  this  class  copied  and  tabulated  the 
records  of  one  thousand  industrial  accidents  to  wage-earning  chil- 
dren 14  and  15  years  of  age  reported  to  the  Massachusetts  Industrial 
Accident  Board,  1918-19.  The  results  of  this  study  were  published 
in  The  American  Child  (v.  2,  No.  3,  November,  1920,  p.  222-232)  and 
also  as  a  separate  pamphlet  by  the  Women's  Educational  and  Indus- 
trial Union. 

SMITH  COLLEGE. 

Northampton,  Mass. 

TRAINING  SCHOOL  FOR  SOCIAL  WORK. — Prof.  F.  Stuart  Chapin, 
director.  A  graduate  professional  school  offering  training  courses 
in  psychiatric  social  work,  medical  social  work,  and  community  serv- 
ice. It  originated  as  an  emergency  training  course  in  psychiatric 
social  work  established  in  1918  by  the  authorities  of  Smith  College 
and  the  Boston  Psychopathic  Hospital  under  the  auspices  of  the 
National  Committee  for  Mental  Hygiene28  (see  p.  122)  primarily  to 
provide  a  supply  of  specially  trained  social  workers  to  deal  with 
mental  and  nervous  cases  among  returned  soldiers. 

The  duration  of  the  course  is  now  14  months,  in  three  divisions — 
a  summer  session  of  eight  weeks  of  theoretical  instruction,  combined 
with  clinical  observation,  at  Smith  College;  a  training  period  of 
nine  months'  practical  instruction  carried  on  in  cooperation  with 
hospitals  and  settlements  (during  1920-21  in  Boston,  Cincinnati, 
Minneapolis,  New  York,  and  Philadelphia),  and  a  concluding  sum- 
mer session  of  eight  weeks  of  advanced  study.  In  the  belief  that  the 
social  worker  with  psychiatric  experience  will  be  of  particular  value 
in  industrial  personnel  work,  a  beginning  has  been  made  in  adapting 
the  course  to  provide  special  preparation  for  the  industrial  field.  It 
includes  courses  on  social  psychology,  mental  tests,  case  work,  in- 
dustrial problems,  and  social  psychiatry.  Details  are  given  in  Bulle- 
tin of  Smith  College  Training  School  for  Social  Work,  1921-22. 

The  second  session's  work  includes  the  preparation  and  writing  of 
a  thesis.  The  following  are  among  the  thesis  subjects  of  the  students 
completing  the  course  in  August,  1921 :  Two  studies  of  the  results 
of  vocational  training  under  the  Federal  Board  for  Vocational  Edu- 
cation (1)  in  25  cases  of  dementia  prsecox  (or  epilepsy),  (2)  in  25 
cases  of  constitutional  psychopathic  inferiority;  the  epileptic  in 
industry — a  study  of  25  cases  from  Monson  State  Hospital  and 
Boston  Psychopathic  Hospital  out-patient  department;  a  compari- 
son of  employment  of  neuro-circulatory  asthenia  patients  before  and 
after  military  service;  investigation  of  all  cases  in  training  in  Minne- 
apolis and  St.  Paul,  classified  according  to  type  of  mental  disorder, 
vocational  training,  previous  training,  etc.;  the  social  and  economic 
problems  of  25  cases  of  epilepsy. 

28  See  also  this  committee's  Reprints  Xos.  35  and  46  from  Mental  Hygiene,  v.  2,  No.  4, 
p.  582-593,  Oct.  1918;  v.  3,  No.  1,  p.  59-64,  Jan.  1010. 


UNIVERSITIES  AND   COLLEGES.  195 

UNIVERSITY  OF  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA. 

Thirty-fifth  and  University  Avenues,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

COLLEGE  OF  COMMERCE  AND  BUSINESS  ADMINISTRATION. — A  course 
of  lectures  and  discussions  on  employment  management  is  given  by 
Prof.  H.  J.  Stonier  with  the  cooperation  of  the  Employment  Man- 
agers' Association  of  Los  Angeles,  by  which  a  supervisor  of  employ- 
ment in  some  large  business  firm  in  the  city  lectures  each  week  before 
the  class  (two  units,  throughout  the  year).  A  mimeographed  outline 
of  the  course  is  available  for  distribution.  A  course  on  industrial 
management  (including  the  efficiency  movement,  selecting  and  train- 
ing help,  and  training  of  future  executives)  is  given  by  Mr.  Clayton 
Rogers  in  the  second  semester  (two  units). 

SYRACUSE  UNIVERSITY. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

SCHOOL  OF  BUSINESS  ADMINISTRATION. — J.  Herman  Wharton,  dean. 
The  courses  of  instruction  in  this  school  dealing  with  personnel  mat- 
ters are :  Psychology  of  personnel  management  and  Applied  psy- 
chology :  mental  and  social  measurements,  by  Prof.  M.  A.  May  (Busi- 
ness psychology  4  and  5,  each  three  hours,  first  semester)  ;  Employ- 
ment and  personnel  management,  by  Dr.  H.  H.  S.  Aimes  (three  hours, 
second  semester)  ;  Industrial  hygiene,  by  Dr.  F.  W.  Sears  (Business 
administration  7,  two  hours,  first  semester). 

UNIVERSITY  OF  TEXAS. 

Austin,  Tex. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — Thomas  R.  Garth,  professor;  Spe- 
cial studies  have  been  made  in  this  department  on  mental  fatigue  and 
racial  differences: 

Garth,  Thomas  U.  Racial  differences  in  mental  fatigue.  (Jour.  App.  Psychol., 
v.  4,  Nos.  2-3,  June-Sept.,  1920,  p.  235-244.) 

The  results  of  some  tests  on  full  and  mixed  blood  Indians.     (Psychol. 
Bull.,  v.  18.  No.  2.  Feb.,  1921,  p.  94-95.) 

UNIVERSITY  OF  WASHINGTON. 

Seattle,  Wash. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PSYCHOLOGY. — Stevenson  Smith,  head  of  depart- 
ment. This  department  has  standardized  two  sets  of  general  intel- 
ligence tests  and  is  at  present  engaged  in  testing  students  of  the 
university  with  a  new  form  of  group  test.  This  material  has  not  yet 
been  published. 

WASHINGTON  UNIVERSITY. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

SCHOOL  OF  COMMERCE  AND  FINANCE. — Course  60,  Employment 
problems,  given  by  Prof.  G.  W.  Stephens  (three  hours  a  week,  second 
semester) ,  deals  principally  with  the  various  wage  systems,  selection 
of  employees,  records  of  employees,  welfare  and  betterment  work. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN. 

Madison,  Wis. 

BUREAU  OF  COMMERCIAL  AND  INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS.— Willis  Wis- 
ler,  chief.  This  bureau,  established  1920  in  the  University  Extension 
Division,  aims  to  furnish  three  types  of  service : 

1.  A  central  library  and  research  laboratory  to  serve  as  a  practical  clearing 
house  for  the  best  practices  in  the  field  of  industrial  and  commercial  relations. 


196  TII.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

2.  A  monthly  bulletin  service  on  timely  and  fundamental  topics,  mechanically 
arranged  to  admit  of  convenient  filing  and  indexing. 

3.  A  consulting  service  where  other  professional  services  are  not  available. 

From  time  to  time  special  bulletins  will  be  prepared  along  lines 
indicated  by  the  interest  and  inquiries  of  employers  and  employees. 
This  service  is  intended  for  the  entire  public  affected  by  industrial 
and  commercial  relations  and  of  necessity  must  confine  itself  to 
legitimately  informational  and  educational  treatments  of  problems 
presented  to  it  for  aid  or  solution.  In  conjunction  with  several  de- 
partments of  the  university  a  plan  is  being  worked  out  for  detailing, 
by  special  arrangement,  advanced  students  to  special  projects  in 
industrial  units,  working  under  the  close  supervision  of  their  depart- 
ments and  of  this  bureau. 

A  series  of  circulars  (mimeographed)  has  been  issued.  1920-21.  as 
follows : 

No.  1,  Explanation  of  plan  (2  p.).  No.  2,  A  labor  policy  and  the  labor  audit 
(13  p.).  Special  No.  2-A,  A  labor  audit — specimen  report  (14  p.).  No.  3,  The 
cycle  of  employment  (10  p.).  Nos.  3-A,  3-B,  Employment  forms  and  routine 
(13,  6  p.).  No.  3-C,  Employment  forms  and  routine  for  the  small  plant  (5  p.). 
No.  4,  Job  analysis  (15  p.).  No.  5,  Absenteeism  (7  p.).  No.  5-A,  Absentee; 
forms  and  routine  ( 11  p. ) .  No.  6,  Plant  organs  (7  p. ) .  No.  7,  Practical  methods 
for  selecting  employees  (9  p.).  No.  8,  Wages,  earnings,  and  incentives  (13  p.). 
No.  8-A,  Audit  of  a  gain-sharing  wage  plan  (7  p.).  No.  10-A,  Industrial  rep- 
resentation plans  in  open-shop  plants  (13  p.).. 

No.  9,  Industrial  housing,  is  in  preparation. 

DEPARTMENT  or  ECONOMICS. — John  R.  Commons,  professor  of  eco- 
nomics. A  two-semester  course  of  instruction  in  labor  management 
(Economics  149)  is  given  in  this  department  by  Mr.  Wisler,  in  which 
the  actual  problems  coming  into  the  above  bureau  are  used  as  labora- 
tory material.  As  far  as  possible,  the  theses  are  prepared  for  use  by 
the  Bureau  of  Commercial  and  Industrial  Relations  in  its  services  to 
employers  or  labor  unions;  and  each  student  is  looked  to  for  expert 
advice  on  the  topics  within  the  range  of  his  thesis  subject.  In  the 
second  semester  the  employment  practices  of  a  variety  of  firms  are 
analyzed  and  reported  on  by  members  of  the  class;  and  each  par- 
ticular system  is  tried  out  in  class,  the  student  to  whom  it  is  assigned 
acting  as  labor  manager,  with  others  impersonating  various  types  of 
applicants.  A  prerequisite  course  on  employment  management  (Eco- 
nomics 171)  is  given  by  Mr.  D.  D.  Lescohier. 

The  research  course,  conducted  by  Prof.  Commons  with  other  in- 
structors in  the  department,  is  divided  into  four  sections:  (a)  Labor 
legislation,  (b)  Labor  history  and  industrial  government,  (c)  Un- 
employment, causes  and  remedies,  (d)  Labor  management.  Doctoral 
dissertations  in  1921  included  Government  in  industry  (O.  F.  Carpen- 
ter),Collective  bargaining  in  the  men's  ready-made  clothing  indus- 
try (Jean  Davis),  Collective  bargaining  in  the  book  and  job  printing 
industry  (Ethel  B.  Dietrich),  Wage  measurement  and  the  manage- 
ment of  labor  (A.  P.  Haake)  ;  for  1922,  Employee  participation  in 
management  of  industry  (H.  H.  Smith)  and  The  labor  union  and 
production  (Mrs.  Glenn  Turner)  are  announced.  In  1921  the  Mac- 
millan  Co.,  New  York,  published  a  volume  entitled  "Industrial 
government"  (425  p.),  by  Prof.  Commons  and  others  in  the  depart- 
ment, containing  the  results  of  field  investigations  of  18  experiments 
studied  July-September,  1919. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION. — V.  A.  C.  Henmon,  director.  A  study 
on  testing  vocational  aptitude  for  typesetting  (compositors)  by  Prof. 


UNIVERSITIES  AND    COLLEGES.  197 

M.  Y.  O'Shea  is  in  progress.  Prof.  Henmon  is  cooperating  with  Mr. 
Ruggles  of  the  Wisconsin  Civil  Service  Commission  in  devising  a  set 
of  tests  for  aptitude  as  junior  clerks.  He  is  also  completing  the 
statistical  work  on  his  set  of  aptitude  tests  for  aviators  (published 
in  Jour.  App.  Psychol.,  v.  3,  No.  2,  June,  1919,  p.  103-109).  Work 
on  the  problem  of  a  team  of  tests  for  measuring  physical  efficiency 
is  also  in  progress. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL  LABORATORY. — Clark  L.  Hull,  director.  Work  on 
the  following  problems  in  personnel  research  is  in  progress  is  this 
laboratory:  (1)  To  determine  aptitude  for  learning  lathe  work 
(steel) — in  cooperation  with  the  course  in  engineering  shop  prac- 
tice; (2)  to  determine  aptitude  for  learning  to  operate  knitting  ma- 
chines— in  cooperation  with  a  large  hosiery  company  (this  will- prob- 
ably be  published  in  the  Journal  of  Applied  Psychology  when  com- 
pleted) ;  (3)  to  determine  aptitude  for  becoming  "maters"  of  hose, 
that  is,  choosing  from  stock  pairs  of  hose  which  match  in  size  and 
shade;  (4)  standardization  of  a  set  of  tests  for  vocational  aptitude  in 
journalism — in  cooperation  with  Max  Freyd  of  Carnegie  Institute 
of  Technology;  (5)  weighting  a  team  of  tests  to  determine  skill  in 
mechanical  drawing. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  WYOMING. 

La  ramie,  Wyo. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PHILOSOPHY  AND  PSYCHOLOGY. — Dr.  June  E.  Dow- 
ney. An  extensive  report  on  the  Will-Temperament,  including  di- 
rections for  giving  and  scoring  both  the  individual  and  the  group 
form  of  the  test  is  in  preparation.  The  following  papers  on  this 
subject  have  already  appeared: 

The  will-profile.      (Univ.  of  Wyoming  Bull.,  Dept.  of  Psychol.,  No.  3,  1919.) 
The  adolescent  will-profile.     (Jour.  Educ.  Psychol.,  Mar.,  1920.) 
Some  volitional  patterns  revealed  by  the  will-profile.     (Jour.  Exp.  Psychol., 
Aug.,  1920.) 

YALE  UNIVERSITY. 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION  (GRADUATE  SCHOOL). — Dr.  J.  Crosby 
Chapman,  associate  professor  of  educational  psychology,  has  recently 
issued  the  following  work  dealing  with  the  trade  tests  used  in  the 
United  States  Army  during  the  war  period : 

Chapman,  James  Crosby.  Trade  tests;  the  scientific  measurement  of  trade 
proficiency.  New  York.  H.  Holt  &  Co.,  1921.  ix,  435  p. 

The  Psycho-Clinic  (Dr.  Arnold  Gesell,  director)  is  constantly  deal- 
ing with  personnel  problems  as  represented  by  adolescents  seeking 
employment,  particularly  those  with  subnormal  or  unstable  constitu- 
tions. (See  also  p.  45.) 

PSYCHOLOGICAL  LABORATORY. — A  contribution  on  "Psychological 
tests  for  stenographers  and  typewriters,"  by  H.  W.  Rogers,  was  pub- 
lished in  Journal  of  Applied  Psychology  (1917,  v.  1,  p.  268-274). 
The  results  of  two  years'  research  with  empirical  vocational  tests 
to  detect  typing  ability,  and  to  predict  ultimate  physiological  capa- 
city in  typing  are  to  be  published  in  the  fall  of  1921  in  the  Archives 
of  Psychology,  Columbia  University. 

A  paper  on  "  The  analysis  of  trade  ability,"  by  E.  S.  Robinson, 
appeared  in  the  Journal  of  Applied  Psychology  (v.  3,  No.  4,  p. 
352-357,  Dec.,  1919). 


198  III.    NONOFFICIAL  AGENCIES. 

LABORATORY  or  APPLIED  PHYSIOLOGY. — Park  and  Oak  Streets. 
Yandell  Henderson,  professor  of  applied  physiology.  The  researches 
conducted  in  this  laboratory  have  been  mainly  studies  in  the  physi- 
ology and  toxicology  of  gases,  and  the  treatment  of  asphyxia,  etc., 
particularly  in  connection  with  the  United  IjStates  Bureau  of  Mines,  to 
which  Prof.  Henderson  is  consulting  physiologist,  and,  during  the 
war,  with  the  Chemical  Warfare  Service  and  the  Medical  Research 
Board  of  the  Air  Service.  They  include  experimental  studies  of  the 
various  forms  of  mine-rescue  oxygen  helmets  and  their  adaptation  to 
the  physiological  needs  of  the  wearer  (Bureau  of  Mines  Technical 
Paper  Xo.  62)  ;  investigations  of  resuscitation  apparatus,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  work  of  the  commissions  on  resuscitation  (see  p.  125) 
of  which  Prof.  Henderson  was  a  member;  the  development  of  effi- 
cient gas  masks  for  the  military  service  and  apparatus  and  methods 
of  testing  aviators  in  respect  to  their  ability  to  withstand  altitude, 
and  of  any  oxygen  inhaler  to  be  used  in  the  treatment  of  carbon 
monoxide  asphyxiation.  Dr.  Henderson's  studies  for  the  Bureau  of 
Mines  on  carbon  monoxide  poisoning  and  on  resuscitation  and  arti- 
ficial respiration  were  published  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association,  1916  (v.  67,  p.  1-5,  580-583). 

In  1919-20  the  staff  of  the  laboratory  investigated  the  physiological 
effects  of  automobile  exhaust  gas  for  the  commissions  of  the  States 
of  Xew  York  and  New  Jersey  in  charge  of  the  proposed  vehicular 
tunnel  under  the  Hudson  River  to  establish  standards  for  ventilation. 
The  results,  which  are  applicable  to  any  tunnel,  garage,  or  factory 
where  the  air  is  contaminated  with  the  products  of  combustion  and 
similar  gases  and  vapors,  have  appeared  in  abbreviated  form  in  the 
Journal  of  Industrial  Hygiene,  July  and  August,  1921.  The  full 
report  is  in  press  as  a  bulletin  of  the  Bureau  of  Mines  and  as  part 
of  the  report  of  the  chief  engineer  of  the  commissions. 

Other  papers  in  this  field  have  been  published  or  completed  for 
publication  in  various  journals,  as  follows : 

The  elimination  of  carbon  monoxide  from  the  blood  after  a  dan  serous  degree 
of  asphyxiation,  and  a  therapy  for  accelerating  the  elimination,  by  Y.  Henderson 
and  H.  W.  Haggard.  (J.  Pharm.  and  Exp.  Therap.,  1920,  v.  16,  p.  11-20.) 

The  anesthetic  and  convulsant  effects  of  gasoline  vapor,  by  H.  W.  Haggard. 
(J.  Pharm.  and  Exp.  Therap.,  1920,  v.  16,  p.  401-404.) 

Respiration  and  blood  alkali  during  carbon  monoxide  asphyxia,  by  II.  W. 
Haggard  and  Y.  Henderson.  ( J.  Biol.  Chem.,  1921,  v.  47,  p.  421-433.) 

The  treatment  of  carbon  monoxide  poisoning,  by  Y.  Henderson.  (.T.  Amer. 
Med.  Assn.,  1921,  in  press.) 

Studies  in  carbon  monoxide  asphyxia.  I.  The  behavior  of  the  heart.  P.y 
H.  W.  Haggard.  (Amer.  J.  Physiol,,  1921,  v.  56,  p.  390-403.)  Two  other  studies 
in  this  series  are  ready  for  publication. 

Studies  in  hydrogen  sulphide  poisoning,  I-III.  By  H.  W.  Haggard.  (Ready 
for  publication  ;  I  to  appear  shortly  in  J.  BioL  Chem. ) 

The  series  of  investigations  is  beinor  continued  for  the  Bureau  of 
Mines  and  several  researches  are  still  incomplete. 

YALE  UNIVERSITY— School  of  Medicine. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLIC  HEALTH. — C.-E.  A,  Winslow,  professor 
of  public  health.  This  department  carries  on  research  in  indus- 
trial hygiene,  particularly  in  conjunction  with  the  Office  of  Indus- 
trial Hygiene  and  Sanitation  of  the  United  States  Public  Health 
Service.  The  latter  has  employed  one  or  more  sanitary  experts  and 


UNIVERSITIES  AND    COLLEGES.  199 

the  Yale  Medical  School  has  provided  the  laboratory  for  carrying 
on  the  work.  Special  attention  has  been  given  to  the  dust  hazard 
in  industry.  In  addition,  extensive  factory  surveys  have  been  made 
and  studies  of  illumination,  ventilation,  and  general  sanitary  con- 
ditions have  been  conducted  in  many  of  the  plants  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  New  Haven.  The  published  results  of  these  researches 
are  as  follows: 

Winslow,  C.-E.  A.,  Greenburg,  L.,  and  Angermyer,  H.  C.  Standards  for 
measuring  the  efficiency  of  exhaust  systems  in  polishing  shops.  (U.  S.  Pub. 
Health  Rep.,  Mar.  7,  1919,  Reprint  No.  509.) 

Winslow,  C.-E.  A.,  Greenburg,  L.  and  D.  The  dust  hazard  in  the  abrasive 
industry.  (U.  S.  Pub.  Health  Rep.,  May  30,  1919,  Reprint  No.  530.) 

Winslow,  C.-E.  A.,  Greenlmrg,  L.,  and  Reeves,  E.  H.  The  efficiency  of  cer- 
tain devices  used  for  the  protection  of  sand  blasters  against  the  dust  hazard. 
(U.  S.  Pub.  Health  Rep.,  Mar.  5,  1920,  Reprint  No.  585.) 

Winslow,  C.-E.  A.,  and  Greenburg,  L.  A  study  of  the  dust  hazard  in  the 
wet  and  dry  grinding  shops  of  an  ax  factory.  (U.  S.  Pub.  Health  Rep.,  Oct. 
8,  1920,  Reprint  No.  616.) 

Winslow  C.-E.  A.,  and  Greenburg,  L.  Industrial  tuberculosis  and  the 
control  of  the  factory  dust  problem.  (Jour.  Indust.,  Hyg.,  Jan.-Feb.,  1921, 
v.  2,  Nos.  9-10,  p.  333-343,  378-395. ) 

Drury,  W.  H.  The  incidence  of  tuberculosis  among  polishers  and  grinders 
in  an  a'x  factory.  (U.  S.  Pub.  Health  Rep.,  Feb.  4,  1921,  p.  159-178.) 

The  following  studies  have  been  completed  and  are  in  press  or 
unpublished : 

Winslow,  C.-E.  A.,  and  Hewitt,  E.  L.  The  relation  between  katathermom- 
c>hT  and  temperature  readings  under  ordinary  indoor  conditions.  (In  press.) 

Greonburg,  L.  Carbonated  water  as  a  source  of  five  cases  of  lead  poison- 
ing. (  Unpublished.) 

Winslow,  C.-E.  A.,  and  Greenburg,  L.  A  health  survey  of  a  small-arms 
manufacturing  plant.  (Unpublished.) 

Group  of  miscellaneous  factory  inspection   studies.     (Unpublished.) 

Extensive  studies  on  the  katathermometer  (of  Prof.  Leonard  Hill) 
are  now  in  course  of  preparation. 

Since  1916  the  university  has  offered  courses  in  industrial  hygiene 
to  students  in  public  health  in  the  graduate  school,  and  students 
have  been  given  the  opportunity  of  obtaining  their  final  degrees  on 
the  basis  of  thesis  work  undertaken  in  industrial  hazards. 


INDEX. 


A. 

Page. 

Abrasive  plants,  health  hazards—  38,  199 
(See      also      Grinding      wheels, 

safety  codes.) 
Absenteeism  _____________________        22, 

39,  86,  90,  117,  143,  173,  192,  196 
Accident     prevention  ______________  33,  57, 

63,  81,  84,  90,  94,  95,  103,  111,  127, 
133-135,   137,   139,   149,   158,   159 
(.S'fie    also    under    particular    in- 

dustries.) 
Accident  statistics,   industrial,   stan- 

dardization of  __________________        112 

Accidents,  industrial  ______________         19, 

20,  21,  57,  59,  68,  145 
To  children  _________________  23,194 

To   women  ___________________          57 

(Nrr    ulno    under    particular    in- 

dustries and  occupations. 
Accounting    education  ___________   126,  162 

Acetylene    ezploaibility  of  _________         30 

Acids.    siiV   handling  ______________        134 

Aeronautics,    safety    code  ----------   31,74 

Air    conditioning  _________________  38,79 

(,svr    <//.s-o    Dust    hazards;    Dust 

removal  ;    Ventilation.) 
Air  hammer,  effect  of  _____________  21,38 

(,vr.    r//.so   Stone  cutters,  health 

hazards.) 

Alcohol,  effect  on  working  capacity.       142 
Aluminum  dust,  inflammability  of  — 
Americanization  _____________   26,  105,  119 

Anilin    and     intermediate     products 

plants,    health    hax.ards  -----  21,181,190 

Anilin   tumors  of  the  bladder  ------        181 

Anthrax  ______   21,  49,  79,  66,  14r»,  155,  190 

Application  blanks  ________   71,  72,  146,  170 

Apprentice   schools  ________________  25 

Apprenticeship  ___________________         21, 

26,  58,  59,  60,  63-64,  85,  105, 

119,  129,  150.  161,  172,  189 

Aptitude  tests  __________  132,  174,  196-197 

Army     training  -------------------          41 

Arsenic    poisoning  ________________          56 

Artificial   flower   makers  ___________       148 

Asphyxiation  : 

By  blast-furnace  gas  __________ 

I'.y   mine  gases  --------------- 

In  garages  ------------------- 

Treatment   of  ----------------        Igo 

Aviation,    safety    code  _____________   31,74 

Aviators,  tests  for  __________   167-168,196 

Ax  factory,   health  hazards  ________        199 

B. 

Bakeries,  working  conditions  ------ 

Bank   employees  ______   35,  90,  105,  163, 

Benefit  associations  --------------  - 

39,  100,  105,  116,  122,  140, 
Benzene   poisoning  ---------------- 

Blast  furnaces,  hazards  and  accident 
prevention  _________________  30,  74, 

Blind,  industrial  occupations  for__  100, 
Boiler-room  equipment,  safety  _____    <5, 

Boilers,  safety  codes  ____  61,  63,  74,  82, 

(  See  also  Locomotive  boilers.  ) 
Bonus  systems  ______________  94,  111, 

126,  133,  147,  156,  157,  161,  183, 
Bookbinding,  employment  of  women_  97, 
Boot  and  shoe  industry  : 

Employment  of  women  -------   20, 

Hours'  of  labor  -----------  O-'-IQ?' 

Training  _______________    2o,  136, 


56 
169 

21, 
146 

66 

135 
145 
134 
159 

119, 

188 
148 

It 

J?Q 

179 

19 


Page. 

Brass  foundries,  health  hazards 54,  152 

Bricklayers  : 

Apprenticeship  and  training 

Employment  during  the  year 155 

Brickmaking,  accident  prevention 159 

Brush  factories,  women's  wages 50 

Building  trades  : 

Employment  during  the  year 155 

Personnel   management 143 

Safety  and  hygiene 34,  49 

C. 

Candy  factories,  women's  wages  and 

working    conditions 23,  50,  57 

Canning  industries  : 

Hours    of    labor    and    working 

conditions 20,  45,  57 

Safety    standards 61 

Women's  wages 45,  50,  57,  62 

Car  building,  wages  and  hours 19 

Carbon  monoxide  detection  in  mines-         30 

Carbon  monoxide  poisoning 21, 

30,  66,  152,  181, 198 
Cement  industry  : 

Accident  statistics 144 

Safety 134, 144 

Chemical  industry  : 

Health  hazards  and   safety 38, 

54,  56,  66,  70, 127,  134 

Personnel    management 105 

(See    also    Dye    industry ;    Ex- 
plosives manufacture.) 

Child  labor 22,  38,  60,  61,  62. 

(54,  85,  94,  96,  117,  120,  124,  132, 158 
Cigar  manufacture  : 

Health   hazards 190 

Waires  and  hours 19,  57 

(Sec  also  Tobacco  industry.) 

Civil   service 28,  32,  83,  89,  94,  110 

Classification  of  personnel 24,  89,  131 

Cleaners,  in  offices,  etcy  wages-----  46, ,50 

Clerical  workers 150,  170,  180.183,  197 

Cloak,  suit,  and  skirt  industry.     (See 

Clothing  industries.) 
Cloth  -  sponging   industry,   health 

hazards » 

Clothing  industries: 

Collective  bargaining  -----   129,  196 
Health  and  working  gndjtions-^  20^ 

Piecework  and  week  work-  67,  86,  115 

Personnel  management X=-OA  H-T 

Production   standards b7,  8t>,  ill 

IffiX*  °'  ^Kli'AlUet 

Wages  and  ^""-^-^-go.-gf  786, 118 

Coal   dust  explosion   tests 30 

Coal  mining  industry  : 

(See  also  Explosions;  Mine 
safety ;  Mine-rescue  meth- 
ods.) >  qn 

Accidents _0     ™ 

Health  hazards 58, 118 

Industrial  relations 08, 14 

Output |2 

Training « 

Wages  and  hours  of  labor 19,  ^ 

Coke-oven   accidents ^- ---/.-• 

Collective  bargaining 75,  161,  19b 

(See    also    Labor    agreements.) 

Color  blindness — - ---  <&,  77 

Colored  workers 24,  46,  97,  9, 

Comfortimeter 

201 


5(1 


202 


INDEX. 


Page. 

Commercial  education 34, 

85,  136,  147,  102 
Compressed  air,  safety—  45,  49,  61,  74,  S2 

Compressed-air   disease 1T3 

Conciliation  and  arbitration 19,  68 

Confectionery  manufacture,  women's 

wages 50,  56 

Construction   industries  : 

Industrial  relations 144 

Safety 74,  134,  159 

Continuous  industries 22,  68 

Conveying  and  hoisting,   safety 75, 

135,  139 

Cooperative  plan   of  industrial  edu- 
cation  , 27 

70,  71,  99,   130,   165,   173-174,   186,    192 

Corporation  schools 27,  85,  118-119 

Corset  industry,  women's  wages  and 

home  work 23,  50 

Cost  of  living 19 

21,    35,    45,   48,    56,    59,    62,    63,    75,    87,' 
89,  96,  97,  113,   115,  124,  129,  147,  156. 

Cotton-gin    fires 26 

Cotton   manufacturing  : 

Accident  prevention 21,  134 

Hours    of    work    as    related    to 

output  and  health _  129 

Training 25,  34 

Wares  and  hours  of  labor 19 

Cranes,  safety 45,  61,  75,  134 

Cutting  oil  dermatoses 38,  58,  135 


Defectives,  employment 45 

Department       stores.      (See      Retail 
stores.) 

Dermatoses _  38,  58 

(See  also  Skin  diseases.) 

Dietaries 141   104 

Disability  among  wage  earners 22, 165 

Disabled  in  industry,  rehabilitation.  32,  35 
47,  48,  59,  61,  63,  68,  108-110, 151,  189 

Discharges  and  lay-offs 103,  155 

Dress     and     waist     industry.      (See 
Clothing  industries.) 

Dressmaking 20,  147,  164 

Dust  explosions 25 

(See    also    Coal    dust    explosion 
tests.) 

Dust   hazards 20,  30,  38,  137,  180, 

181,  190, 191,  199 
(See  also  Air  conditions,  Alumi- 
num dust ;   Granite  industry  ; 
Metal  mines.) 

Dust   measurements 55,  80,  149, 185,  190 

Dust    phthisis 21,  30,  38,  144,  159 

Dust    removal , 53,  56,  199 

Dye  industry,  health  hazards--  21, 

38,  66,  71,  190 

E. 

Efficiency  of  human   body   as   a   ma- 
chine  142,  176 

Efficiency    rating 27,  83,  106,  150,  156 

Electrical       equipment      in       mines, 

safety.: 30,  75 

Electrical  industries  : 

Accident    prevention 90, 100, 124 

Training 33,  126,  186 

Electrical      power      control      safety 

codes 74,  101 

Electrical  safety  codes 31, 

45,  73,  74,  101,  125 
Electrochemical      plants,      health 

hazards 38 

Elevator  safety  codes 31, 

45,  61,  63,  75,  81,  134 

Emotions,   psychological    tests 183 

Employee    representation 105, 

111,  119, 148,  196 
(/See     also     Shop     committees ; 
Works'  councils.) 

Employment 19,  20,  21,  57-  98 

Regularity  of_   20,  21,  24,  67,  68,  80.  115 

Stabilization  of 103,  154,  192 

Employment    certificates 22 


Page. 

Employment  management 20,21,33,41, 

60,  67,  68,  71,  85,  100,  101,  103,  105 

118,  119,  156,  170,  172,  177,  179,  196 

Courses  of  instruction-  88,  89,  166,  171, 

175,  177,  178,  179,  182,  183,  186, 

187,  188,  191,  192,  193,  195,  196 

Employment    managers'    associations 

and  conferences 19, 

102,  105-108,  136,  14L>,  103 
Employment  offices  : 

Private 44,  71 

Public  —   20,  24,  59,  106,  112-113,  148 

Engineering    education 81, 

!>::,  152,  165,  174,  177,  ISO.  l!»i> 

Engineers'   salaries 69,  103 

English  teaching  in  industries 84,  178 

Epileptics,  employment  of 194 

Ether   poisoning 181 

Examinations  : 

Civil    service 32.  83 

Clerical  workers 32,  83,  177 

Firemen 1  r>!> 

Street   railway  employees 71 

(See   alxt,   Mental    tests.) 

Executive   ability   tests 183 

Executives,  training  of-  81,99, 119, 154,  111 
Explosibility  of: 

Acetylene 30 

Coal  dust 30 

Grain  dust L'O 

Mine    gases 30 

Explosions,   prevention  of  : 

Grain  elevators 20 

Industrial   plants 135 

Mines 30 

Explosives,    manufacture,   etc.  : 

Health  hazards 20 

Safety  codes  and  rules 49, 

53,  61,  74,  110,  127 
(See  also  Ether  poisoning ;  Mu- 
nition plants  ;  Trinitrotoluene 
poisoning.) 

Explosives,  permissible  in  mines 29,  30 

Explosives,    transportation   of 79 

Export  trade,  training  for 29 

Eye  injury   and  strain 104,112,152 

Eye   protection 31,  49,  61,  77,  123,  139 

P. 

Factory    schools 21,  150 

Family  budgets 21, 

35,  46,  75,  87,  89,  114,  141,  173 
Fatigue 38, 

39,   62,  129,  148,  152,  154,   176, 
180,  182,  184,  185,  186,  192.  195 

Feeble-minded,  employment  of 46,  52,  122 

Felt-hat     industry,     health     hazards 

and   sanitation 53,  56,  190 

File  clerks,  tests 116,  150 

Fire    protection 53,56,60,61,73, 

114,  125,  126-127,  134,  135 

First-aid 29,  30,  49,  54,  95, 188 

Five-and-ten-cent  stores 57 

Food  products  manufacture  : 

Health  of  workers 65,  118 

Women's  wages 50 

Foreign  commerce,  training  for_  29,  34,  119 
Foreman  training-   25,  33,  34,  48,  55,  91, 1 01, 
106,  111,  119,  134,  149,  150,  186,  192 
Foundries  : 

Health     hazards     and     workhag 

conditions 38,  49,  54, 127,  190 

Safety  codes  and  rules 61, 

74,  128,  135,  159 

Training 25 

Fur  trade,  Health  hazards 65 

Fumes  : 

Health  hazards 20,  40 

Removal 53,  56 

Furniture    manufacture,    Wages   and 

hours 19 

Furunculosis__  58,  190 


G. 


Galvanizing    industry,    safety    stand- 
ards __    


01 


INDEX. 


203 


Page. 

Garages,  health  hazards 56,  66 

(Garment    trades.      (See   Clothing  in- 
dustries.) 

Gas  and  electric  welding,  safety 134 

Gas  manufacture : 

Accident  statistics 76 

Accident   prevention 31,  75 

Health   hazards 38,66 

Gas  masks 30,  198 

Gas  safety   code. 31,  74,  75 

Gasoline  engine  exhaust  gas,  effects 

of 58,  198 

Gasoline   hazards 30, 198 

Glare  from  reflecting  surfaces 104 

Glass  industry,  health  hazards 38,  145 

Government  employees  : 

Classification 28,  36,  69,  83,  94,  103 

Personnel   administration..  22,  27, 110 

Retirement 110 

Training 28 

AVelfare  work 37 

(,svf  also  Civil  Service.) 

Grain-dust    explosions 25,  26 

Granite    industry,    health    hazards.        21, 

Graphic    rating 150',  151 

Grinding  and  polishing,  employment 

of   women 57,  63 

Grinding  wheels,   safety   codes 53.  61, 

74,  103,  112,  130,  134,  159 
Group  insurance 116, 119,  161 

H. 

Handicapped,  opportunities  for 35,  41, 

47,  48,  r,2.  .V.I.  r,i».  r,3.  68,  84,  109,  179 
Handicapped  women,  gainful  employ- 
ment for 194 

Head     and     eye     protection,     safety 

code 31,  61,  73 

Headache,      as      occupational      com- 
plaint         181 

Health    education 66,  114,  116,  118, 

119, 129,  151,  164-H55 

Health  hazards 37-39,  40,  58,  118 

(See     nlxo    Industrial    hygiene; 
and    under    particular    indus- 
tries and  occupations.) 
Health  in  mercantile  establishments.       181 

Health    insurance 68,122,143 

Heart      disease.      employees      handi- 
capped by 

I  lout  dissipation  from  human  body— 

Heat    hazard   in   industries 

Hollerith  machine  operatives,  tests—        1<6 

Home   work 23,60,96,97,167 

Hookworm   infection   in   mines 

H<>rsr-hair  industry,  health  hazards-        190 

(Nrc  also  Anthrax.) 
Hosiery  and  knit-goods  manufacture  : 

Aptitude   tests 197 

lloursi  of  labor 

Wages 19,  50 

Hotels,  women's  wages 46,  50,  58 

^SSftSSSi 

(See  also  under  particular  in- 
dustries and  occupations.) 

Hours  of  work  for  women 23,  62,  124 

Housing 21,  44,  105,  119,  140 

Humidity,  effects  of 40,55,80 

Hydrogen  sulphide  poisoning 198 

I. 

Immigrants   in   industry  : 

Education 26,  47,  48,  84,  93 

Personnel   problems 44. 

47,  56,  60,  92,  106,  113,  164,  186 

Incentives 94,   146,   172/196 

(,svr  also  Bonus  system  ;  Profit 
sharing;  Stock  ownership; 
Wage  payment  plans.) 

Industrial  capacity  scale_T 158 

Industrial   education 26, 

27,  34,  81,  102,  130,  154 
Industrial  espionage— 27,  92 


20,  21.  74,  148 

30,  38,  39 


Page. 

Industrial  hygiene 19 

20,    21,    37-40,    53,    56,    61,    65,    69, 
76,  78,  93,  94,  95,  151,  180-182,  190 

Study  and  teaching 22, 

152,  168,  180,  184,  185,   189,  199 

Industrial  medical  departments 95,  129 

(See  also  Medical  care  of  indus- 
trial workers.) 

Industrial    physiology 23, 

38,  40,  152,  176,  184 
(See    also    Fatigue;    Nutrition; 
Strength   tests.) 

Industrial  relations 60 

67,  68,  76,  81,  86,  88,  90,  94, 
103,  105-106,  117,  128,  140, 
148,  153,  156,  161,  183,  187 

Industrial    surveys 20,    23,    60,    145 

Infections    following    industrial    ac- 
cidents           59 

Inflammable  liquids 127 

Influenza  epidemic 39,  152 

Information  services _  104,  132 

Ink  dermatosis 33 

Intelligence     tests.        (See     Mental 
tests.) 

Interest  in  the  job 183 

Internal-combustion  engines,  safety,         75 

Interviews 150 

Introducing  the  new  worker 106 

Iron  and  steel  industry  : 

Accidents  and  accident   preven- 
tion  

Health  hazards 

Personnel  management ( 105 

Three-shift  day 92,  156,  157,  176 

Wages  and  hours 19,  148 


J. 


Job  analysis 106,  119,  145,  170,  183,  196 

Chemical  industry 168 

Clothing  industry 86 

Commercial   occupations 34 

Executives 171 

Machinist's  trade 34 

Mining  occupations 34 

Paper  and  pulp  industry 157 

Pottery  industry 34 

Railway  car  men 75 

Railway   boilermaker's   trade 34 

Shipyard  occupations 33 

Textile  trades 34 

(See   also   Occupations,    descrip- 
tions of.) 

Job  selling 59 

Job  specification's 33,  42,  106,  170 

Joint  relations - 156,  161,  187 

(See     also     Employee     representation ; 
Labor  agreements.) 

Jute   industry,   English  lessons 178 

Juvenile  placement 22,  24,  66,  99,  162 


K. 


Katathermometer 55,  199 


Labor  adjustment 21,  48,  87, 106, 187 

Labor    agreements,    awards    and    de- 
cisions     21,  129,  161 

(See  also  Collective  bargaining.) 

Labor  audits 33,  89,  196 

Labor  camps 44,  47,  59,  60 

Labor  laws 19,  21,  57,  68 

(See    also    Hours    of    labor    for 
women ;      Minimum     wage; 
Workmen's  compensation.) 
Labor  organizations : 

Current  information  about 21,  57 

Records 115 

Research  bureaus  for 67, 

75,  113,  114,  115,  164 
(See   also    Trade-union    policy.) 
Labor  spy i 27,  92 


204 


INDEX. 


Page. 

Labor  turnover 22,  25,  a:1., 

75,   100,    101,   103,    117,    119,    150, 
156,   167,   170,   173,   179,   188,   192 

Women   employers 2:; 

Ladders,  safety  codes 61,  74,  82,  134 

Lake  Carriers'  Association 20 

Laundries : 

Health  hazards 49,  55,  r.5 

Safety  and  sanitation 45,  54 

Women's     wages     and     working 

conditions--    20,  45,  46,  50,  58,  5'.',  IKS 
Lead  corroding  and  oxidizing,  safety 

standards 53,  01 

Lead  poisoning 20,  21,  38, 

53,  56,  58,  66,  117,  173,  181,  199 

Learners 45,  46,  11 1 

Lighting 38,  104,  114,  139,  156,  167,  1S5 

Lighting   codes 4f>, 

53,  61,  63,  74,  104,  134,  151) 

Lightning  protection 31,  74 

•Literacy  tests 42 

Lithography,   training 25 

Locomotive  boilers,   safety 36,  75 

Locomotive  firemen 15i) 

Logging,  safety  code 31,  45,  74,  155 

Longshoremen 148 

Lumber  industry  : 

Accident    prevention 31,  45,  74,  155 

Wages  and  hours  of  labor 19 

Lunch  rooms,  employees' 54, 106,  188 

M. 

Machine  building  : 

Accident  prevention 21,  61 

Training 34 

Machine  tools,  safety  code 61,74,  130, 139 

Machinists,  oil  dermatoses 38,  58,  104 

Magnetic  field  as  industrial  hazard 181 

Malnutrition 87,  141 

Management    terminology 81 

Manganese  poisoning 180 

Meal  period 63 

Meat-packing  industry  : 

Personnel  management 105 

Safety 134 

Wages  and  hours 19,  173 

Mechanical  aptitude  tests 43, 

65,  174,  177,  193 

Medical  care  of  industrial  workers.          3S, 
49,  54,  94,  95,  100,  112,  129 
Men's  clothing  industry.      (See  Cloth- 
ing industry.) 

Mental  alertness  standards 150 

Mental  hygiene  of  industry 51, 

76,  102,  117,  122,  123,  155 

Mental  tests 32,  42,  44,  51, 

52,  53,  64,  65,  77-78,  83,  87,  91, 
93.  106,  115,  116,  119,  120,  131, 
132,  143,  150,  151,  153,  158,  166, 
172,  174,  175,  177,  178,  180,  182, 
183,  184,  185,  186,  187,  193,  195 
(See    also    Aptitude    tests ;    Me- 
chanical aptitude  tests  ;  Sten- 
ography ;   Telegraphers  ;   Tele- 
phone operators  ;  Trade  tests  ; 
Typewriting,  etc.) 
Mental   work  : 

Effect  of  air  conditions  on 

Effect  of  fatigue  on 186 

Effect  of  smoking  on 136 

Mercury    fulminate,    action    on    the 

skin 40 

Mercury   poisoning 66,  122 

Metal   mines  : 

Accidents   and   accident   preven- 
tion  30,  45,  61 

Health  hazards 30,  38,  63 

Metal   trades  : 

Aptitude   tests 197 

Classification 50 

Employment  of  women 63,  65,  129 

Hours  of  work  in  relation  to  out- 
put and  health 129 

Personnel    management 105 

Training 33,  34,  130, 147,  169 

Safety 134,  159 

Wages  and  hours 50 


Page. 

Metallurgical  works,  accident  statis- 
tics           30 

Migratory  labor 44 

Military  personnel  problems 131,132 

Milinery  industry..   50,56,6(5,147,148,164 

Mine  gases,  explosibility 30 

Mine-rescue      methods       and       appa- 
ratus   29,  30,  198 

Mine  safety 29,  30,  45,  i::4,  i:;r> 

Aimer's    consumption .'!8, 143 

Miner's  nystagmus 30 

Minimum  wage 20 

21,  45,  46,  50,  56,  57,  59,  62,  124 

Morbidity   statistics,   industrial,.  39 

78-79,  117,  125 

Mortality  statistics,  industrial 20, 

39,  118,  144 

Mothers  in  industry 97,  107   173 

Motormen,  psychological  tests  for..  «.io,  143 

Municipal  employees 89, 140 

Munition   plants  : 

Employment  of  women 148 

Health    hazards 38,  54,  58,  173 

Muscular   work  : 

Effect  of  air  conditions  on 55 

Effect  of  food  on 141 

Musical    talent,    tests 184 

Mutual    relief    associations,    Govern- 
ment employees 21 


IV. 


National  electrical  fire  code...  73,  127 

National  electrical  safety  code 

National  War  Labor  P,oaW__ 

Navy  education  system 36 

Negro   workers 24,46-47.178 

Negro  women  in  industry 24   05  5>7  <)S 

Night  work  for  womon.   56,  96,  97,  124,  173 
Nitro   and   amido   compounds,    safetv 

codes, 54,61,71,75 

Nursing,    industrial 108 

Nutrition 132,  141 

Nystagmus,    miner's '    30 

O. 

Occupation  neuroses 51 

Occupational  diseases __  20,  21, 

22,  30,  37-40,  56,  57,  58,  68,  69,  70, 
76,  117,  .144,  145,  150.  173,  181,  190 
(See    also    Headache  ;    Poisons  ; 
Skin    diseases ;    Tuberculosis, 
etc.) 
Occupations  : 

Descriptions  of 21,  35,  41,  50,  179 

For   minors—   22,  99,  147,  164,  169,  173 

For  women 20,  23,  64- 

65,  71,  90-91,  97,  162,  163,  164,  165 
Office    employees,     mental    alertness 

tests  and  scores 150 

(See  also   Clerical  workers  ;  ex- 
aminations.) 

Office-work  training 119 

Oil  folliculitis 181 

Old  age,  provision  for 164 

Open    shop 88,  127,  130,  141,  160,  196 

Organic  accelerators,  poisoning  by 70 

Output 129,  156,  1S6 

Overall    industry,    training 25 

Overtime,  railroad  shops 41,  75 


P. 


1  Os 


Packer's  itch 

Paint    and    dry    color    trades,    health 

hazards  and  safety  standards 54,  61 

Painters,  health  hazards 20,66,173 


(See  ateo   Lead  poisoning.) 
tine 


115 


Painting  and  decorating  industry 

Paper  and  pulp   industry: 

Employment  of  women 63 

Safety 74,  134,  135,  1  .">!) 

Training . 157,  17S 

Welfare  work 177 


INDEX. 


205 


Paper  box  industry  : 


Page. 


Training , 25,  97 

Women's     wages     and     working 

conditions 50,  56,  57 

Para/ol,  poisonous  properties 40 

Part-time    education 162,  169 

Pearl-button      manufacture,      health 

hazards 54,  56,  184 

Pellagra,   cotton   mill  villages 40 

Pensions  : 

Industrial 121,  140 

Policemen's  and  firemen's 140 

Teachers' 110,  140 

Personnel    management.       (See    Em- 
ployment management.) 

Personnel  research 21, 

::r,.   133,  143,  150.  154,  169,  191 
Petroleum      industry,      wages      and 

hours 20 

Phosphorus,    white    or    yellow 40 

Photolithography,    training 25 

Physical    examination 41, 

r><>.  06,  83,  89,  95,  112,  116 
Physical      standards      for      working 

children 22,61,64 

Piano  making,  training 25 

Plant    disability    funds 57 

Plant   publications 192,196 

Plumbism.      (See  Lead  poisoning.) 

Pneumatic  hammers,  effect   of 21,  38 

Poisons,    industrial 20,  21, 

22,  37,  40,  180,  181 
i  X(  f  f/7.so  Arsenic  ;  Carbon  mo- 
noxide ;  Ether;  Hydrogen 
sulphide  :  Lead  ;  Manganese  ; 
Mercury  ;  Organic  acceler- 
ators ;  '  Tellurium  ;  Tetra- 
chlorethane ;  Trinitrotoluene, 
etc.) 

Postal     employees,     working     condi- 
tions          37 

Posture 57,  77 

Pottery  industry,  health  hazards 20,38, 

54,  50 

Power  press,  safety  codes 49,74.  134 

Power    transmission,  safety   codes 61,  74, 

PrieesJ.       '—  19,21 

Printing  trades: 

Aptitude    tests 196 

Collective   bargaining 10<j 

Continuity   of  employment 115 

Employment  of  women 46,  60 

Health  hazards 20,  38-39.  00 

(  Mitput 183 

Safety  standards <»1 

Training 147,  161,  162,  189 

Waui-s 115,  1<>1 

Prison    industries 53,  123 

Production  standards ~ _--  8S,  15g4j 

(Nrr    alxft    Clothing    industries; 
Production  standards.) 

Promotion  examinations §3 

Promotion    lines 1°' 

Profit-sharing _ 2l'??A 

119,  121,  129.  161,  196 
Prone  pressure  method   of  resuscita- 
tion   

Proof    renders 

Psychiatric  examination 51,122,123 

Psychiatric   social   work 51,  155,  194 

Psychological     tests.      (See    Mental 

Psephologists 78,  132 

Psychopathic  employees.-   51, 122,  123,  Io5 
i  x<  r     alxo     Defectives;     Feeble- 
minded.) 
Public     utilities,     personal     manage- 

ment_-        90, 105,  106,  124,  134 


a. 

Qualification    cards 150 

Quantity   budgets 21,  89 

Quarrying  : 

Accidents   and   accident   preven- 
tion   30,  45,  61 


Quarry 


rying — Continued. 

^ealth  hazards 20, 137 

(See  also  Granite  industry, 
Stone  cutters.) 

R. 

Race  characters 132,  178, 195 

Radio      mechanics      and      operators, 
training 32,  33 

Railings,      toe-boards,      etc.,      safety 

codes 61,  74 

Railroad    employees  : 

Classification 41 

Labor  adjustment 40 

Personnel  management 79,  105 

Training 27,  119,  147 

Turnover  and  unemployment 75 

Wages  and  working  conditions.  41,  75 

Rating  scales 83, 

119,  132,  146,  150,  151,  158 

Refrigeration  safety  code 74,  82 

Rehabilitation  of  disabled 32, 

35,  47,  48,  61,  63,  68,. 108-110 

Research    talent 132 

Respiratory  diseases  in  industry 20, 

144,  145 

Rest  day M -—  21,68 

Rest  periods 129,  186,  193 

Restaurants,     women's     wages     and 

working   conditions 46,  50,  58,  97 

Resuscitation  : 

From  electric  shock 125, 198 

From  mine  gases 30,  198 

Retail   stores  : 

Health  and  medical  service 181 

Hours  and  working  conditions--  20,  97 

Opportunities  for  women 91 

Personnel    management 90,  105, 

146,  148,  150,  176,  177 

Training 27,  34,  133,  136, 

146,  147,  164,  169,  171,  188,  192 

Unemployment 20 

Wages 20,  46,  50,  57,  58,  133 

Welfare  work 121 

Riveters,  output  of 186 

Rubber   industry  : 

Employment  psychology  in 189 

Health  hazards 20,  63,  70 

Safety 134 

Training 25,  165 

S. 

Safe   clothing 61,134 

Safety  codes  and  rules 44-45,  49,  53, 

56,  60,  61,  63,  72-75,  81,  82,  139 

Safety    devices 96,  125,  128,  134,149, 

150,  159,  160 

Safety  lamps 30,  34,  75 

Safety    organization 20,  50,  57,  60,  61, 

85,  90,  94,  133-135,  149 
Salesmen  : 

Incentives 126,  170 

Selecting  and   developing 170,  176 

(See  also  Retail  stores.) 
Sanitation,    Industrial ~ll~~134'l51 

(See  also  Industrial  hygiene.)' 

Sawmills,  safety  code 31,  45, 155 

Scaffolding,  safety  codes 61,  134,  159 

Scientific   management 156,  157 

Seaman 68,  115 

Seasonal   employment .48,  148 

Seats   for   workers 57,77,96,181 

Selection     and     placement     of     em- 

~~8§ri5iri69ri76ri86ri88, 196 
(See   also   Employment  manage- 
ment; Mental  tests.) 

Shipbuilding : 

Accident  prevention 45 

Labor  adjusment 21,  41 

Navy-yard  wages of67?Z 

Occupations — -  33,  179 

Training —          ««* 

Shirt   makers  : 

Production  standards 

Training 25 

Wages o(h  57 


206 


!  NDKX. 


Pnge. 

Shop   committees —  22,  88, 

101,  106,  140.  161,  173 
Sickness  frequency  among  industrial 

employees ?9,  51,  57 

Silk    manufacturing : 

Hours    of    work    as    related    to 

output  and  health 129 

Wages  and  hours  of  labor 19 

Skin   diseases,   occupational 25, 

38,  40,  104,  135,  108 
Smelting    and    refining,    health    haz- 
ards   20,  38 

Smokeless     powder     manufacture, 

health  hazards 181 

Spoiled   work 152 

Spray  method  of  finishing  and  deco- 
rating, health  hazards 58 

Stabilization  of  employment..  103,  154, 192 

Stairways,  safety   code 74, 127,  134 

State  labor  bureaus 21,  44-64 

Stationery     manufacture,     Women's 

wages ; 50 

Steam   engines   and   turbines,   safety 

codes 61,  75,  134,  159 

Steamship  business,  training  for 29,  34 

St«-el  strike  of  1919 88 

Sled  workers.  (See  Iron  and  steel 
industry.) 

Stenography  tests 43,  176,  183,  184,  197 

Stock  ownership  by  employees 94, 

106,  119 
Stone  cutters,  health  hazards..  20,  38,  137 

Stop-watch  time  study 156 

Storage  battery  manufacture,  health 

hazards 20,  38 

Street  and  interurban   railways  : 

Employment  of  women 23,  57,  63 

Wages  and  hours 20,  48 

Safety 50, 134 

Training 71,  147 

Strength  tests  in  industry 185 

Strikes  and  lockouts 21 

Suggestion  systems 135 

T. 

T.  N.  T.  poisoning 40, 152,  181 

Tactile    discrimination,    influence    of 

illumination   on 140 

Tanning  industry  : 

Health  hazards  and  safety 25, 

54,  74,   134,  155 

Labor  survey 88,  155 

(See  also  Anthrax.) 

Tardiness 86 

Teachers  : 

Pensions 110,  140 

Tests 177,  183 

Teachers  for  Americanization,  train- 
ing    20 

Teachers  of  trades,  training 27, 

33,  34,  136,  172 

Teachers     of     retail     selling,     train- 
ing     188,  193 

Telegraphers,  tests 172,  180,  186 

Telephone  exchanges,  women's 
wages,  hours,  and  working  condi- 
tions  57,  58,  97,  98 

Telephone  operators,  selection 176 

Tellurium   poisoning 39 

Tetrachlorethane  poisoning 181 

Textile   industries  : 

Health  of  workers 38,  61 

Safety 74,  134 

(See  also  Cotton  manu- 
facturing ;  Silk  manu- 
facturing ;  Wool  manu- 
facturing.) 

Three-shift  system 92,  156,  157 

Tile  works,  health  hazards 20 

Time   study 156 

Tobacco,  effect  on  working  ca- 
pacity  184,  186 

Tobacco   industry  : 

Health  hazards 49,  56,  61 

Wages 57 


Page. 

Trade  ability,  analysis  of 1H7 

Trade  schools  for  girls 20,26,34,  130 

Trade   tests 24, 

27,  43,  83,  150,  151,  174,  l'.»7 

Trade-union  policy 1ST,  liMJ 

Trade  unionism  and  temperament..        H'2 

Training ur,,  :;:j-34,  41- 

42,   81,   90,    118-119,    121,    172,   179,    188 
(See   also    under    particular    in- 
dustries  and    Vocational    edu- 
cation ;   Promotion   lines.) 

Transfers  and   promotions 119 

(See    also    Promotion    examina- 
tions; Promotion  lines.) 
Transportation  employees,  visual  re- 
quirements            77 

Trinitrotoluene  poisoning _  40,  151',  1  si 

Tuberculosis 20, 

30,  38,  136-137,  159,  190,  lit!) 
Tuberculous      persons,      employment 

and  vocational  rehabilitation 35,  137 

Turpentine  poisoning 66 

Typewriting  tests 43, 

116,  172,  175,  176,  184,  197 

U. 

Ultra-violet  radiation,  effect  of 77,140 

Unemployment 19,  20, 

21,  51,  57,  67,  68,  69,  75,  !>!>, 

113,    122,   142,    156,    157,    IS!) 

Unskilled  labor 119,  186 

V. 

Vacations 90, 106,  111 

Ventilation 40, 

53,  54-55,  56,  79,  80,  114,   130.  177.  ls5 

Ventilation  codes 74,  so.  l:;r» 

Vestibule  schools 121,136 

Visual    acuity 38,  139,  167,  Kis 

Visual  judgments   of  size 

Vocational    education 19 

21,  26,  32-35,  64,  135,  147,  102,  IfiS 

Vocational   guidance 

24,    26,    65,    66,    97,    138,    147.    16'J. 
163,     166,     169,     178-179,     182,     1  sr, 

Vocational   psychology 175, 

179,   187,   188,   189,   19f> 
(See  also  Aptitude  tests  ;  Men- 
tal tests;  Trade  tests.) 

W. 

Wage  levels 106,  170 

Wage  payment  plans 

94,  101,  105,  123,  146,  163 
(Sec  also  Incentives.) 

Wages 19,  21,  33, 

36-37,  57,  59,  103,  129,  150,  170 
(See    alxo    under    particular    in- 
dustries and  occupations.) 

Waste  in  industry 103 

Welfare   work 21,  37,  94,  103,  121,  177 

Will   profile 197 

White-lead   works,   health    hazards..   :j,s,  ill 
Women  as  street-car  conductors  and 

ticket  agents 23,  57,  63 

Women    in    executive    and    technical 

positions 165 

Women  in  industry 19, 

20,  21,  23,  39,  45,  46,  49,  52, 
56,  57,  59,  60,  62,  63,  65,  68, 
85,  94,  96,  117,  124,  129, 
142,  148,  163,  164,  167,  190 

Dependency  on 23,  148 

Health  hazards 21,39,49 

Shop  clothing 61 

Training 23,  34 

Women    in    retail    stores.       (Sec   Re- 
tail  stores.) 

Women  in  the  Government  service 23,  83 

Women's    garment    industries.       ( »vrr 

Clothing    industries.) 
Wood  alcohol,  health  hazards 56,  70 


INDEX. 


207 


Page. 

Woodworking,   safety   codes 45, 

61,  74,  112,  134,  139,  155 
Wool  manufacturing: 

Hours  of  work  as  related  to  out- 
put and  health 129 

Wages  and  hours 20,  115 

Women   workers. 
Workers'   education 88,  187 


Page. 

Workmen's   compensation 19, 

20,   21,  22,  57,   59,   68,   111-112,  138 
Works'  councils 129,  131,  148 

Z. 

Zinc     mines,     health     hazards     and 

safety 38,  63 


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*  Bui.  173.   Index    numbers    of    wholesale    prices   in    the    United    States    and    foreign 

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*  Bui.  200.   Wholesale  prices,  1890  to  19ir>. 
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Bui.  284.   Index  numbers  of  wholesale  prices  in  the  United  States  and  foreign  coun- 
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Bui.  296.  Wholesale  prices,  1890  to  1920.     [In  press.] 

Retail  Prices  and  Cost  of  Living. 

*  Bui.  105.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  1911 :  Part  I. 

Retail  prices,  1890  to  1911 :  Part  II — General  tables. 

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Retail  prices,  1890  to  Juno.  1911':  Part  II — General  tables. 

Bui.  108.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  August,  1912. 

Bui.  110.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  October,  1912. 

Bui.  113.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  December,  1912. 

Bui.  11.",.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  February,  1913. 

*  Bui.  121.  Sugar  prices,  from  refiner  to  consumer. 
Bui.  125.  Retail  prices,   1890  to  April,  1913. 

*  Bui.  130.  Wheat  and  flour  prices,  from  farmer  to  consumer. 
Bui.  132.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  June,  1913. 

Bui.  13(5.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  August,   1913. 

Bui.  138.  Retail  prices,  1890  to  October,  1913. 

*  Bui.  140.  Retail  prkvs,  1890  to  December,  1913. 
Bui.  !"><;.  Retail  prices,  1907  to  December,  1914.. 
Bui.  164.  Butter  prices,  from  producer-  to  consumer. 
Bui.  170.  Foreign  food  prices  as  affected  by  the  war. 
Bui.  184.  Retail  prices,  1907  to  June,  1915. 

Bui.  197.  Retail  prices,  1907  to  December,  1915. 
Bui.  228.  Retail  prices,  1907  to  December,  1916. 
Bui.  270.  Retail  prices,  1913  to  1919. 

Wages  and  Hours  of   Labor. 

Bui.  116.  Hours,  earnings,  and  duration  of  employment  of  wage-earning  women  in 
selected  industries  in  the  District  of  Columbia. 

*  Bui.  118.  Ten-hour  maximum  working-day  for  women  and  young  persons. 
Bui.  119.  Working  hours  of  women  in  the  pea  canneries  of  Wisconsin. 

*  Bui.  128.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  cotton,  woolen,  and  silk  industries,  1890 

to  1912. 

*  Bui.  129.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  lumber,  millwork,  and  furniture  industries, 

1890  to  1912. 

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Wages  and  Hours  of  Labor — Concluded. 

*  Bui.  131.  Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  1907  to  1912. 

*  Bui.  134.   Wages  ;ni<!  hours  of  labor  in  the  boot  and  shoe  and  hosiery  and  knit  goods 
/  industries,  1890  to  1912. 

/      *  Bui.  135.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  cigar  and  clothing  industries,  1911  and 
1912. 

Bui.  137.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  building  and  repairing  of  steam  railroad 
cars,  1890  to  1912. 

Bui.  143.   Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  15,  1913. 
j       Bui.  146.  Wages  and   regularity  of  employment   and  standardization   of  piece   rates 

in  tho  dress  and  waist  industry  of  New  York  city. 

J  *  Bui.  147.  Wages  and  regularity  of  employment  in  the  cloak,  suit,  and  skirt  industry. 
*J  *  Bui.  150.   Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  cotton,  woolen,  and  silk  industries,  1907 
to  1913. 

Bui-.  151.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  iron  and  steel   industry   in   the   United 
States,  1907  to  1912. 

Bui.  153.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  lumber,  millwork,  and  furniture  indus- 
tries,  1007  to   1913. 

Bui.  154.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  boot  and  shoe  and  hosiery  and  under- 
wear industries,  1907  to  1913. 

Bui.  160.  Hours,  earnings,  and  conditions  of  labor  of  women  in  Indiana  mercantile 

establishments  and  garment  factories. 

J       Bui.  161.  Wages  and  hours  of   labor  in   the   clothing   and   cigar   industries,   1911   to 
1913. 

Bui.  163.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  building  and  repairing  of  steam  railroad 
cars,  1907  to  1913. 

Bui.  168.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  iron  and  steel  industry,   1907  to  1918. 

Bui.  171.  Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  1,  1914. 

Bui.  177.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  hosiery  and   underwear  industry,   1907 
to  1914. 

Bui.  178.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  boot  and  shoe  industry,   1907  to  1914. 

Bui.  187.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  men's   clothing  industry,   1911   to   1914. 

*  Bui.  190.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  cotton,  woolen,  and  silk  industries,  1907 

to  1914. 

*  Bui.  194.  Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  1,  1915. 
Bui.  204.   Street  railway  employment  in  the  United  States. 

Bui.  214.   Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  15,  1916. 

Bui.  218.   Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  iron  and  steel  industry,   1907  to  101 5. 

Bui.  221.  Hours,   fatigue,  and  health  in  British  munition   factories. 

Bui.  225.  Wages  and   hours  of  labor  in  the  lumber,   millwork,  and   furniture   indus- 
tries, 1915. 

Bui.  232.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  boot  and  shoe  industry,   1907  to   1916. 

Bui.  238.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  woolen   and   worsted   goods   manufacturing, 

1916. 

-i  Bui.  239.  Wages  and   hours  of  labor  in  cotton  goods  manufacturing  and   finishing, 
1916. 

Bui.  245.  Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  15,  1917. 

*  Bui.  252.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  slaughtering  and  meat-packing  industry, 

1917. 

Bui.  259.  Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  15,  1918. 

Bui.  260.   Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in   the   boot  and   shoe   industry,   1907   to   1918. 

Bui.  261.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  woolen  and   worsted   goods  manufacturing, 
1918. 

Bui.  262.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in   cotton  goods  manufacturing  and   finishing, 
1918. 

Bui.  265.  Industrial  survey  in  selected  industries  in  the  United  States,  1919.     Pre- 
liminary report. 

Bui.  274.  Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  15,  1919. 

Bui.  278.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  boot  and  shoe  industry,  1907-1920. 

Bui.  279.   Hours  and  earnings  in  anthracite  and  bituminous  coal  mining. 

Bui.  286.  Union  scale  of  wages  and  hours  of  labor,  May  15,  1920. 
~^  Bui.  288.  Wages  and  .hours  of  labor  in  cotton  goods  manufacturing,  1920. 

Bui.  289.  Wages  and   hours  of  labor  in   woolen   and   worsted   goods   manufacturing, 
1920. 

Bui.  294.   Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in  the  slaughtering  and  meat-packing  industry 
in  1921.      [In  press.] 

Bui.  297.  Wages  and  hours  of  labor  in   the  petroleum  industry.      [In   press.] 

(II) 


Employment  and  Unemployment. 

*  Bui.  109.   Statistics  of  unemployment  and  the  work  of  employment  offices. 

Bui.  116.   Hours,  earnings,  and  duration  of  employment  of  wage-earning  women  in 

selected  industries  in  the  District  of  Columbia. 
Bui.  172.   Unemployment  in  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 
Bui.  182.   Unemployment    among   women    in   department   and   other   retail   stores   of 

Boston,  Mass. 

*  Bui.  183.  Regularity  of  employment  in  the  women's  ready-to-wear  garment  industries. 
Bui.  192.   Proceedings  of  the  American  Association  of  Public  Employment  Offices. 

*  Bui.  195.  Unemployment  in  the  United  States. 

Bui.  196.  Proceedings  of  the  Employment  Managers'  Conference  held  at  Minneapolis, 

January,  1916. 
Bui.  202.   Proceedings  of  the  conference  of  the  Employment  Managers'  Association  of 

Boston,  Mass.,  hold  May  10,   1916. 
Bui.  206.  The  British  system  of  labor  exchanges. 
Bui.  220.  Proceedings  of  the  Fourth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Association  of 

Public  Employment  Offices,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  July  20  and  21,  1916. 
Bui.  223.   Employment  of  women  and  juveniles-  in  Great  Britain  during  the  war. 

*  Bui.  227.   Proceedings  of  the  Employment  Managers'   Conference,   Philadelphia,   Pa., 

April  2  and  3,  1917. 

Bui.  23.").    Employment   system  of  the  Lake  Carriers'   Association. 
Bui.  241.  Public  employment  offices  in  the  United  States. 
Bui.  247.  Proceedings  of  Employment  Managers'  Conference,  Rochester,   N.   Y.,  May 

9-11,  1918. 

Women  in  Industry. 

Bnl.  116.   Hours,   earnings,   and  duration  of  employment  of  wage-earning  women  in 
selected   industries   in  the   District  of  Columbia. 

*  Bui.  117.  Prohibition  of  night  work  of  young  persons. 

*  Bui.  118.  Ten-hour  maximum  working-day  for  women  and  young  persons. 
Bui.  110.   Working  hours  of  women  in  the  pea  canneries  of  Wisconsin. 

*  Bui.  122.    Employment  of  women  in  power  laundries  in  Milwaukee. 

Bui.  160.  Hours,  earnings,  and  conditions  of  labor  of  women  in  Indiana,  mercantile 
establishments    and   garment    factories. 

*  Bnl.  167.   Minimum-wage  legislation  in  the  United  States  and  foreign  countries. 

*  Bui.  175.   Summary  of  the  report  on  condition  of  woman  and  child  wage  earners  in 

the  United   States. 

*  Bui.  176.   Effect  of  minimum  wage  determinations  in  Oregon. 

*  Bnl.  180.  The  boot  and  shoe  industry  in  Massachusetts  as  a  vocation  for  women. 
Bui.  182.  Unemployment   among   women    in    department   and   other   retail    stores  of 

Boston,  Mass. 

Bui.  10.",.    I  >i-ex  snaking  as  a  trade  for  women  in  Massachusetts.  ^ 
Bui.  215.   Industrial  experience  of  trade-school  girls  in  Massachusetts. 
Bui.  217.   Effect    of    workmen's    compensation   laws  in    diminishing   the    necessity    of 

industrial  employment  of  women  and  children. 

Bui.  223.  Employment  of  women  and  juveniles  in  Great  Britain  during  the  war. 
Bui.  253.   Women  in  the  lead  industry. 

Workmen's  Insurance  and  Compensation   (including  laws  relating  thereto). 

Bnl.  101.   Tare  of  tuberculosis  wage  earners  in  Germany. 

Bui.  102.   British   National   Insurance  Act,   1911. 

Bui.  103.   Sickness  and  accident  insurance  law  of  Switzerland. 

Bui.  107.  Law  relating  to  insurance  of  salaried  employees  in  Germany. 

*  Bui.  126.   Workmen's  compensation  laws  of  the  United  States  and  foreign  countries. 

*  Bui.  155.  Compensation  for  accidents  to  employees  of  the  United   States. 

*  Bui.  185.  Compensation  legislation  of  1914  and  1915. 

Bull.  203.   Workmen's  compensation  laws  of  the  United  States  and  foreign  countries. 
Bui.  210.   Proceedings  of  the  Third  Annual  Meeting  of  the  International  Association 

of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commissions. 
Bui.  212.  Proceedings   of   the    conference   on    social    insurance    called   by    the    Inter- 

'  national  Association  of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commissions. 
Bui.  217.  Effect  of  workmen's   compensation   laws   in    diminishing   the   necessity   of 

industrial  employment  of  women  and  children. 

Bui.  240.  Comparison  of  workmen's  compensation  laws  of  the  United  States. 
Bui.  243.  Workmen's    compensation    legislation    in,   the    United    States    and    foreign 

countries. 
Bui.  248.  Proceedings  of  the  Fourth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  International  Association 

of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commissions. 
(HI) 


Workmen's  Insurance  and  Compensation — Concluded. 

3ul.  264.  Proceedings  of  the  Fifth  Annual  Me?ting  of  the  International  Association 
of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commissions. 

Bui.  272.  Workmen's  compensation  legislation  of  the  United  States  and  Canadk, 
1919. 

Bui.  273.  Proceedings  of  the  Sixth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  International  Association 
of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commissions. 

Bui.  275.  Comparison  of  workmen's  compensation  laws  of  the  United  State*  ;in<l 
Canada. 

Bui.  281.  Proceedings  of  the  Seventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  International  Asso- 
ciation of  Industrial  Accident  Boards  and  Commissions. 

Industrial  Accidents  and  Hygiene. 

Bui.  104.  Lead  poisoning  in  potteries,  tile  works,  and   porcelain  enameled  sanitary 

ware  factories. 
Bui.  120.  Hygiene  of  the  painters'  trade. 

*  Bui.  127.  Dangers  to  workers  from  dust  and  fumes,  and  methods  of  protection. 
Bui.  141.  Lead  poisoning  in  the  smelting  and  refining  of  lead. 

*  Bui.  157.  Industrial  accident  statistics. 

Bui.  165.  Lead  poisoning  in  the  manufacture  of  storage  batteries. 

*  Bui.  179.   Industrial  poisons  used  in  the  rubber  industry. 

Bui.  188.  Report  of  British  departmental  committee  on  the  'danger  in  the  use  of 
lead  in  the  painting  of  buildings. 

*  Bui.  201.  Report  of  committee  on  statistics  and  compensation  insurance  cost  of  the 

International   Association   of   Industrial    Accident   Boards   and    Commis- 
sions.    [Limited  edition.] 

Bui.  205.   Anthrax  as  an  occupational   disease. 

Bui.  207.  Causes  of  death  by  occupation. 

Bui.  209.   Hygiene  of  the  printing  trades. 

*  Bui.  216.  Accidents  and  accident  prevention  in  machine  building. 

Bui.  219.  Industrial  poisons  used  or  produced  in  the  manufacture  of  explosives. 

Bui.  221.  Hours,  fatigue,  and  health  in  British  munition  factories. 

Bui.  230.  Industrial  efficiency  and  fatigue  in  British   munition   factories. 

Bui.  231.  Mortality  from  respiratory  diseases  in  dusty  trades. 

Bui.  234.  Safety  movement  in  the  iron  and  steel  industry,  1907  to  1917. 

Bui.  236.  Effect  of  the  air  hammer  on  the  hands  of  stonecutters. 

Bui.  251.  Preventable  death  in  the  cotton  manufacturing  industry. 

Bui.  253.  Women  in  the  lead  industries. 

Bui.  256.  Accidents    and    accident    prevention    in    machine    building.      Revision    of 

Bui.  216. 

Bui.  267.  Anthrax  as  an  occupational  disease.      (Revised.) 

Bui.  276.  Standardization  of  industrial  accident  statistics. 

Bui.  280.  Industrial  poisoning  in  making  coal  tar  dyes  and  dye  intermediates. 

Bui.  291.  Carbon  monoxide  poisoning.      [In  press.] 

Bui.  293.  The  problem  of  dust  phthisis  in  the  granite  stone  industry.      [In  press.] 

Bui.  298.  Causes  and  prevention  of  accidents  in  the  iron  and  steel  industry,   1910 

to  1919      [In  press.] 
Conciliation  and  Arbitration   (including:  strikes  and  lockouts). 

*  Bui.  124.  Conciliation  and  arbitration  in  the  building  trades  of  Greater  New  York. 
Bui.  133.  Report   of   the   industrial    council   of   the   British   Board    of  Trade   on    its 

inquiry  into  industrial  agreements. 
Bui.  139.  Michigan  copper  district  strike. 

Bui.  144.   Industrial  court  of  the  cloak,  suit,  and  skirt  industry  of  New  York  City. 
Bui.  145.   Conciliation,  arbitration,  and  sanitation  in  the  dress  and  waist  industry  of 

New  York  City. 

Bui.  191.  Collective  bargaining  in  the  anthracite  coal  industry. 
Bui.  198.  Collective  agreements  in  the  men's  clothing  industry. 
Bui.  233.  Operation  of  the  Industrial   Disputes  Investigation  Act  of  Canada. 
Labor  Laws  of  the  United  States    (including  decisions  of  courts   relating  to  labor). 

*  Bui.  111.  Labor  legislation  of  1912. 

Bui.  112.  Decisions  of  courts  and  opinions  affecting  labor,  1912. 

Bui.  148.  Labor  laws  of  the  United  States,  with  decisions  of  courts  relating  thereto. 

Bui.  152.  Decisions  of  courts  and  opinions  affecting  labor,  1913. 

Bui.  166.  Labor  legislation  of  1914. 

Bui.  169.  Decisions  of  courts  affecting  labor,  1914. 

Bui.  186.  Labor  legislation  of  1915. 

Bui.  189.  Decisions  of  courts  affecting  labor,  1915. 

(IV) 


Labor  Laws  of  the  United  States — Concluded. 

Bui.  211.  Labor  laws  and  their  administration  in   the  Pacific  States. 

*  Bui.  213.   Labor  legislation  of  1916. 

Bui.  224.   Decisions  of  courts  affecting  labor,  1916. 
Bui.  229.   Wage-payment  legislation  in  the  United  States. 
Bui.  244.  Labor  legislation   of   1917. 
Bui.  246.  Decisions  of  courts  affecting  labor,  1917. 
Bui.  257.   Labor  legislation  of  1918. 

Bui.  258.   Decisions  of  courts  and  opinions  affecting  labor,  1918. 
Bui.  277.   Labor  legislation  of  1919. 

Bui.  285.  Minimum-wage  legislation  in  the  United  States. 

Bui.  290.  Decisions  of  courts  and  opinions  affecting  labor,   1919-1920.      [In  press.] 
Bui.  292.  Labor  legislation  of  1920.      [In  press.] 
Foreign  Labor  Laws. 

Bui.  142.   Administration   of .  labor  laws  and  factory  inspection  in   certain  European 
countries. 

Vocational  Education. 

Bui.  145.   Conciliation,  arbitration,  and  sanitation  in  the  dress  and  waist  industry  of 

New  York  City.  / 

*  Bui.  147.   Wages  and  regularity  of  employment  in  the  cloak,  suit,  and  skirt  industry.  \/ 
Bui.  159.   Short-unit  courses  for  wage  earners,  and  a  factory  school  experiment. 

Bui.  162.  Vocational  education  survey  of  Richmond,  Va. 
Bui.  199.   Vocational  education  survey  of  Minneapolis. 

Labor  as  Affected  by  the  War. 

Bui.  170.  Foreign  food  prices  as  affected  by  the  war. 

Bui.  219.  Industrial  poisons  used  or  produced  in  the  manufacture  of  explosives. 
Bui.  221.   Hours,  fatigue,  and  health  in  British  munition  factories. 
Bui.  222.  Welfare  work  in  British  munition  factories. 

Bui.  223.  Employment  of  women  and  juveniles  in  Great  Britain  during  the  war. 
Bui.  230.   Industrial  efficiency  and  fatigue  in  British  munition  factories. 
Bui.  237.   Industrial  unrest  in  Great  Britain. 

Bui.  249.   Industrial  health  and  efficiency.     Final  report  of  British  Health  of  Muni- 
tion Workers  Committee. 

Bui.  255.  Joint  industrial  councils  in  Great  Britain. 

Bui.  283.   History  of  the  Shipbuilding  Labor  Adjustment  Board,  1917  to  1919. 
Bui.  287.  National  War  Labor  Board.     [In  press.] 

Miscellaneous  Series. 

*  Bui.  117.   Prohibition  of  night  work  of  young  persons. 

*  Bui.  118.  Ten-hour  maximum  working-day  for  women  and  young  persons. 

*  Bui.  123.  Employers'  welfare  work. 

Bui.  158.  Government  aid  to  home  owning  and  housing  of  working  people  in  foreign 
countries. 

*  Bui.  159.   Short-unit  courses  for  wage  earners,  and  a  factory  school  experiment. 

*  Bui.  167.  Minimum-wage  legislation  in  the  United  States  and  foreign  countries. 
Bui.  170.  Foreign  food  prices  as  affected  by  the  war. 

Bui.  174.   Subject  index  of  the  publications  of  the  United   States  Bureau  of  Labor 

Statistics  up  to  May  1,  1915. 
Bui.  208.   Profit  sharing  in   the   United   States. 
Bui.  222.  Welfare  work  In  British  munition  factories. 
Bui.  242.  Food  situation  in  Central  Europe,  1917. 
Bui.  250.  Welfare   work   for  employees  in   industrial    establishments   in    the   United 

States. 

Bui.  254.   International  labor  legislation  and  the  society  of  nations. 
Bui.  263.   Housing  by  employers  in  the  United  States. 
Bui.  266.  Proceedings  of  Seventh  Annual  Convention  of  Governmental  Labor  Officials 

of  the  United  States  and  Canada. 

Bui.  268.   Historical  survey  of  international  action  affecting  labor. 
Bui.  271.   Adult  working-class  education  in  Great  Britain  and  the  United  States. 
Bui.  282.  Mutual   relief  associations   among  Government  employees  in   Washington, 

D.  C. 
Bui.  295.  Building  operations  in  representative  cities  in  1920.     [In  press.] 


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Boots  and  shoes,  harness  and  saddlery,  and  tanning. 
Cane-sugar  refining  and  flour  milling. 

Coal  and  water  gas,  paint  and  varnish,  paper,  printing  trades,  and  rubber  goods. 
Electrical  manufacturing,  distribution,  and  maintenance. 
Glass. 

Hotels  and  restaurants. 
Logging  camps  and  sawmills. 
Medicinal  manufacturing. 

Metal  working,  building  and  general  construction,  railroad  transportation,  and  ship- 
building. 

Mines  and  mining. 
Office  employees. 
Slaughtering  and  meat  packing. 
Street  railways. 
Textiles  and  clothing. 
Water  transportation. 


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